Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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money on cigarettes and soda. I'\ "I don't get along with my par- ca ents," she says. "I don't want to jo live with them, I want to live by myself." * kr Jackson works for the mission, wj cleaning the women's dorm and brining in donations. But she has sic 1..^L tiau nu lU^K IlllUlllg d JUU. S1L "I look for a job," she says, "but sa' ^ _ ?.jmSk (Above) Nell Jackson has been homeless for nearly ten years. Her children stay with their grandparents, and she lives at the mission. "I dream every day of a two bedroom apartment," said Jackson. (Right) On this night, volunteers from the Keenan High School JROTC program have come to volunteer at the mission. Adrian Jones is handing out meals to more than 100 people. re forgotten all my references....I inviting n't find anyone to help me get a them." b." Without a job, however, Jackson ^ WQ lows her dream may be a long ty off. Bea T "(In a year} I'll probably be out- sides of tl le sitting in the cold, sitting out- "I cam< le right across the street," she myself. I ps7 "I look forward to someone and a dru _ L J** me home to live with Nearly four years late works the second sh Oliver Gospel Mission.' rid of its own hrower has seen "both is right - not for me, 1 ae fence," as she puts it. clients." ; here in 1993, homeless "I started out tr came here an alcoholic in the female 1 1. n J ? _L . g addict. uorm, sne _ , mm mm says, fcmembering her first I've seen about four or f really get out and prospt ? * ==r m I v w a :r, Thrower often, and Thrower's work at the ift at the mission is often frustrating. "Sometimes I go home and cry. I :hree years, often question myself, and I quesaat I think tion God, about what I am really 3ut for the doing here. #ne^/me^ L30 home But 1 guess ' | I stop caring and Id_ stop sharing my _ offen e|ne.S- experiences," 1? I she says, "then there is no need , for me here...I rf-?n &oc/ abocff" get called "he b-i-t-c-h somerf" I am re^ 40/03 times, but if I don't get called ft. Ptff l3t|ftA? rfl that at least once or twice a week. I don't rp HC (OIM Z? ?r ' I think 1 m doing W/Q9 Jwj expert my job , ? _* I, j i, . "I made it here. e ?>, flwn fter?/.? , made it from . . jr here. And until eeW fcr me here... the lord oper, a door and tells me to leave, I'm BeO Thrower gonna remain mission worker here." "I know I'm not here to save ive clients them all, but if I can get one out of :r." a hundred to turn their life around, not occur I feel good about my job." iwrnM I S H I % SB r* HI ^ | ^F J^jSr J JPJ^Bf ,&tH V m^m mk V J? ""'? JFi # O