Watkins and North County Solutions for Change - Helping the Homeless

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http://www.solutionsforchange.org




[Video Transcript]
[Sandra Shuda] There is a picture out in our front lobby that displays about twelve hundred of our employees at that time and over the last ten years it would be interesting for you note that Solutions has actually helped that many people that were homeless at one time and now are active in the community and are working and have their families back intact. I'm Sandra Shuda , I'm the vice president human resources for Watkins manufacturing, a spa manufacturer here in Vista, and one of things that I have always a love for are the homeless people, and so did my family. Even as a young person , ten or twelve years old, my dad always seemed to seek the homeless and come and help bring them to our home and we would feed them, we would invite them to our table. I know that you know as a child they didn't want to become homeless obviously they wanted to have a place where they could sleep and have a pillow and uh you know a shower that they can and sometimes it is a fault of their own but it's not necessarily something that they ever dreamed of becoming homeless and so on I always try to see how we can help especially now that I work in this company and so generous with organizations within our community North County Solutions for Change is one of them. They do a fabulous job at helping people that are homeless moving into an environment that is positive, that can help and that's one of the reasons we really love to work with them and when I first became aware of North County Solutions for Change they just have done uh they do exactly what I would want to do if I was in their shoes and that's really to help people from the bottom of their heart. They care and love these people. I do believe that Vista as a community is also winning this problem that we have for homeless people because they actually are being very proactive. I think the community sees what North County Solutions for Change is doing and how successful they have been because if they werent successful the community would not be backing them up and I do believe that we have a community here that we live and work in that really does value human life and so we want to be able to participate and donate and assist wherever we can and I and I find that Vista I think community far more than a lot of the other cities surrounding San Diego are very proactive and very involved with the homeless. There was a time where someone had asked me you know why do I support North County Solutions for Change? Why is it that that's the organization that we put our efforts in and honestly I just really I've seen the results first hand and I've seen how Chris and his wife run that organization. I've seen the facility and he has very candidly let me speak to the people there and I've spoken to them and ask them what they thought and how are they treated and you know what they like about it and that's really what sells me. If I did not see results, I probably would not be contributing but that's really why we continue to assist them.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Hot Spring Spas Video
• Watkins
• Sandra Shuda
• Helping the Homeless
• Homeless People
• Vista
• North County
• San Diego