<b>STARS:</b> Angel, Barbara, and Estevan share three Transition House success stories.

HELPING HAND: Barbara, Angel, and Estevan have a message for you — about how they faced homelessness but through hard work they succeeded. Now they’re in college. Others might have given up, but at the depth of their despair, they got a helping hand at Transition House family shelter.

At a time when the world seems colder, they inspired me. I hope they’ll inspire you, too.

“We come from three different families,” they wrote in a public message. “At different points during our childhoods, our families became homeless and moved into Transition House’s emergency shelter.

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