(Angela Rojas, in middle with black baseball cap, speaks to a family at Nourishing Hope’s Sheridan Market on a recent morning. All photos by Alyssa Schukar for Nourishing Hope.) Angela Rojas first began playing violin when she was just 6 years old. Her passion for the instrument brought her to Chicago last year to pursue […]
A couple mornings each month, as he has for the past five years or so, Marc Brenner loads boxes of groceries into his car at the Hub, Nourishing Hope’s warehouse in Ravenswood. Then he delivers the food to people who might otherwise go hungry. “It’s extremely rewarding,” said Brenner, 59. “Every time I complete a […]
At Nourishing Hope, we’ve long been proud to serve the LGBTQ+ community in Chicago. Nationally, people who identify as LGBTQ+ are disproportionately affected by food insecurity, and also by mental health struggles, according to national data. We know that transgender people, in particular, are also far more likely to experience homelessness than cisgender people. Simply […]
(All photos by Nancy Stone for Nourishing Hope) Almost every week, students from Northside Learning Center High School arrive eager to volunteer at Nourishing Hope’s headquarters. All of the students have what could be generally described as intellectual disabilities or impaired functional abilities. Some communicate verbally; others do not. But they share a strong connection […]
(All photos taken by Nancy Stone for Nourishing Hope.) Anatoliy Plotskiy left his native country of Russia earlier this year because he feared imprisonment under the Putin regime. Like many other Russians, he is opposed to the ongoing war in Ukraine. “My political views are not supported in Russia,” said Plotskiy, 31, in a recent […]
(All photos by Mateo Zapata for Nourishing Hope) About a year and a half ago, Jonika Jackson moved to Chicago with her two children to start a new life. In doing so, she left behind heartache and hardship in Pennsylvania, where she’d been living in a domestic violence situation, she said. She’s also still reeling […]