Our Ministry began as  a mission of charitable compassion by a personal patron. At that time we noticed that the application process for standard charities was overly complex and constituted an obstacle more than anything. Of course donors wanted to be sure their money went to legitimate needs and not to some fly by night scam artist, but the whole idea of personal dignity was tossed out the window with stigmatizing  questions and complex demands on the recipient. Many recipients could not read or lived with vision challenges while others had records of cancellations, foreclosures, court involvements and traumatic experiences which left them ill-positioned to negotiate a labyrinth of government documentation and exclusionary policies. Good people in need of assistance were going without due to red tape and compounded indignities.