Empty Bowl Dinner Aims To End Family Homelessness
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- It's National Homeless Awareness Week. In observance of it, a local organization held a special dinner Wednesday evening to raise awareness for the less fortunate.
"We come out and we eat soup and bread to acknowledge that there is someone out here who doesn't have anything to eat or doesn't have anywhere to live."
Eleven years ago, Quanda Guiton and her kids were homeless, but after receiving help from the Philadelphia Interfaith Hospitality Network and working hard she was able to get back on her feet.
Since then, she's graduated from college, got a job that pays a living wage and found a place to live.
"They showed me how to do a lot of things that were needed, life skills that I was lacking when I was put in a position of being homeless."
At the Empty Bowl Dinner, Quanda found out she won a 2012 Hyundai Elantra, courtesy of Allstate Insurance.
She says she's going to use that car to pursue more of her goals.
"I want to go back and get my master's degree. "I just want to be able to be a soccer mom and just give back to the community."