Indhira, Oscar, and Oswaldo Carrillo were born in Denver, CO to Adriana and Alfredo. Both of their parents are immigrants from Mexico. My father Alfredo arrived to the United States in 1996; he worked in construction for several years before he lost his right eyesight due to a work related accident. After a long recovery …Read More
Linda is 58 years old and lives in New Orleans with her husband and son. After Hurricane Katrina, Linda and her husband became the caregivers for her mother who was 80 years old at the time. Linda, her mother and the rest of the family moved to Mississippi for 11 months where they began to …Read More
March 3rd will mark the 2 year anniversary of the day that the father of my 6 year old son was taken from our home. 8 years ago I fell in love with a man who taught me that there was such a thing as true love. Together we made a home, and he accepted me …Read More
My personal caregiver story started in the fall of 2004. when I was 30. My husband and I were close to the due date of our first born son. We came back from refugee crisis and relief and community development work in West Africa to my childhood home in New Hampshire, at which time I …Read More
Charlcie was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. She lived with her mother, Theodora Etter, who had a passion for cooking and spent her career as a chef. In 2008, when Charlcie was only 14 years old, her mother tragically passed away from breast cancer. Charlcie went to live with her father. She received Survivor …Read More
Sara will be 80 years old next year. She lives in Chicago, Illinois. Sara worked her whole life, starting out as a waitress in her teens in her hometown of Petersburg, Illinois. She then went on to work in administration for the Illinois Humane Society and Onward House for about ten years. After that she worked …Read More
Claire Egan is a single mother of three now-adult children from Maine. She spent ten years juggling work and raising children alone. She worked as a baker, owner of Threads (a thrift store), and then Zoe’s (a cafe and bakery). As Claire’s widowed mother, Ruth, reached her 90s, it became apparent that as independent as …Read More
I am the reason Sam Zell is rich, but I’m not his stockbroker, and I’m not his business partner. I am one of the hundreds of thousands of people living in one of the 370 manufactured home communities operated by Equity LifeStyles Properties (ELS), where Zell is chairman of the board. My home and the …Read More
I am 13 years old and last year my father was deported. My mom was recently in the hospital and my dad was the only one paying the bills. I do not know the reason my dad stopped and arrested. The police say he had drugs in his system but I know that he never …Read More
I live in Aurora, Illinois and I am on this bus tour because my husband was accused of helping other people cross the border and was deported. He came into this country in 1994 and never went back. I petitioned for him in 2011 and we have been separated for over a year. We have …Read More
