Looking back to see forward: A former orphanage created to help women and children during the Civil War adjusts once again to a crisis
Kara Winstead’s 5-year-old daughter Alayah keeps changing her mind on what color she wants to paint her room when they move.“She’s already making plans,” Winstead says. Whenever she gets a new toy, her daughter sets it aside and says, “This is going to be for my new house, Mommy.”
A year and a half ago, she was working two jobs when a divorce and the loss of child care caused her to fall behind on her rent. Soon, an eviction notice was taped to her door, and she found herself searching online for shelters in the Washington region, fearing she and her daughter were going to end up on cots, sharing a room with strangers.
In some ways, life is continuing as normal at St. Ann’s Center for Children, Youth and Families in Hyattsville: Mothers are working, studying and participating in programs aimed at helping them leave more self-sufficient than when they arrived. Children are learning, playing and thriving in ways other circumstances might not have allowed.But the center, which offers temporary housing, career counseling and life-skill classes to single mothers, has not gone unshaken by thepandemic.
Now, the fundraiser has been postponed, leaving the center’s staff to put together a budget for this coming year not knowing how much funding it will receive.They also don’t know when it will feel safe again to start accepting new families and whether, when those families arrive, the staff will be able to offer a hug or hold a hand.
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