78207
San Antonio Christian Hope Resource Center:
Changing 78207 One Life, One Family at a time
DANA MICHEA MARQUEZ
WRITER
Within the boundaries
of San Antonio, Texas
lies one of the poorest
areas in the Nation.
It was featured as the
Westside zip code 78207
fifty years ago in a CBS
News Documentary,
“Hunger in America.”
A San Antonio Express-News editorial
(March 2016) later described the
area as “half of adults without a high
school diploma, 60 percent without
jobs, income below the median level
and a poverty rate of 42 percent”.
Generations have passed, and it’s hard
to say that life in the 78207-zip code is
demonstrably better than when
‘Hunger in America’ was released. But
things are changing.
Idar, a single mom raising a
14-year-old daughter with serious
health issues, was missing countless
work days to take her child to the
hospital with crippling epileptic
seizures as well as continuing
bedside care at home. This resulted
in countless job losses bringing in
little income, near zero savings and
sleepless nights – she was running
out of resources and hope.
CHRC collaborates on-site with more than a dozen local organizations to serve those in need, such as the UTHSC School
of Nursing,
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