The SARAH Center

We try to help as much as possible by offering showers, a place to do their laundry, use of the phone for local calls or just to pick up their mail. We at Project Understanding have been able to serve our clients this past year with 8,235 showers, 1,597 loads of laundry, 1,362 phone calls, and 356 people have had the service of our mail pickup.

 This past year the homeless population in Ventura has grown. The need of organizations like Project Understanding is always there. Clients that are looking for full-time work are finding it harder and harder, and even if they do find work, most times it’s eight or nine dollars an hour which is not enough to get them off the streets and into an apartment or even a room to rent.

 One client that did get off the streets and into his own place found a full-time job plus two part-time jobs just to get him where he is today. So as you can see with salaries as low as they are and rent so high, some people have to work seven days a week to get along in Ventura.

 Most days we are busy from the time the doors open. I am blessed to have two volunteers, Mariann Davis and Nita Perkins. Without them the SARAH Center would not be able to do all it does.