Who is Sandi?

Santa Rosa, CA

Sandi is originally from Chicago and currently lives in Santa Rosa. The pandemic has been difficult and made her fear for her family. She recently lived in a shelter home and, though it was challenging, she feels grateful for this experience and what she has learned.

Miracle Money Goals 2021

1. Buy a home for permanent housing

2. Save to go back to school to get her RN or LVN degree

3. Pay off her car

In Sandi’s Words

"God taught me that miracles happen and it happened for me with you guys. Miracle Friends really surprised me and helped me, I am really grateful for that. Me and my family and my boys."

More about Sandi

Sandi grew up in the church and has always made sure to put God first and keep faith. She worked two jobs in Chicago while raising two boys as a single parent. Sandi worked in a hospital and also with children with special needs.

Since then, Sandi has remarried and now has five children. She was recently self-employed as a caretaker for an elderly client who passed away at 101 years old after she took care of him for six years.

Sandi’s Miracle Money Experience

In March when Sandi was invited to be in the Miracle Money program, she was extremely thankful and planned to use the money to pay bills and for essentials for her and her family as well as helping out a friend she met at a shelter.

She was successfully able to help her husband make a down payment on a car. She is very proud of her husband for being a good caretaker to her boys; a car would help him get to work and take care of the family.

Sandi also used some of the Miracle Money to buy her sons a TV stand as a housewarming gift for his new home in Tennessee after he had just returned from serving time in Korea.

Sandi was able to buy herself a service dog. Sandi struggles with PTSD and anxiety, and having a pet to keep her company and listen to her has been very soothing. She will spend some of her Miracle Money on training and certifying her new pet. 

Sandi used some of the funds to support her parents in paying their bills and rent. Her mother is handicapped and her disability checks tend to be unreliable, so Sandi was happy to help her out financially.

Sandi also helped out a friend of hers from a shelter she lived in previously and cut her one-year-old son’s hair. Sandi related to her friend’s struggles a lot, having been a single mom of boys herself, and wanted to help out. Sandi shared that caring for kids is very important to her because she had it really rough as a kid, coming to America at five years old on a sponsorship.

According to her Miracle Friend, Sandi is doing well and looking terrific! Sandi is really thankful to be part of the program and says that without it, she would be struggling a lot more.