Gifts of Hope 2025

Single Mother Keeps Her Family Warm with Help from LCOC When temperatures on the Cape dipped into freezing territory last December, Helena faced a crisis familiar to many working parents. The single mother of three had watched her heating oil gauge sink toward empty, knowing she couldn’t afford a refill. “I tried to make the…

Sharon Finds Balance and Community on the Cape Sharon has been living on a fixed income on the Lower Cape for almost a decade, when a chronic condition forced her into early retirement. But as grocery, housing, and utility prices climbed, her monthly check was stretched thinner each month. After paying rent, medications, and heating…

Nourishing Hope for Sarah and Her Son For Sarah, a lifelong resident of the Outer Cape and single mother of a sixteen-year-old son, Evan, the past year was particularly challenging. Between rising grocery prices, the annual rent increase, and higher utility bills, her paycheck from a local daycare no longer stretched far enough. When a…