An 18 Year Old’s Inspirational Journey toward Independence

An 18 Year Old’s Inspirational Journey toward Independence

DOWNLOAD ARTICLE April 2017 By Laurence Kaldor, President of the VCLF THIS STORY IS ABOUT A YOUNG WOMAN overcoming the odds—with the help of the wonderful advocates at CASA, a grant recipient of the VCLF—who has been able to find peace as she embarks on her next...
A Little Help Goes A Lifetime…

A Little Help Goes A Lifetime…

DOWNLOAD ARTICLE April 2017 By Laurence Kaldor, President of the VCLF AS A CHILD, MARGO AKOPOV admits that her father’s world of addiction and abuse were something she was blind to “for only in my lacerated memories do I recall the welded stench of toxic, sweat, and...

De’Shan Jones: An Inspiration of What Is Possible

DOWNLOAD ARTICLE November 2016 By Laurence Kaldor, President of the VCLF FOUR YEARS AGO, DE’SHAN Jones, then 15, didn’t think much of school. “I don’t know how I graduated eighth grade, but I did,” he remembers. “Going into high school, my mindset was ‘I’m just going...