Finding More Time for Family
In her essay written for her Ways to Work loan application, Candice Miller described her grueling daily routine, beginning at 5:30 a.m.
After getting her 3-year-old daughter ready for daycare and preparing her breakfast, Ms. Miller would catch a bus with her daughter to the home of a relative who would then take the little girl to daycare. Ms. Miller would catch another bus home, get herself ready for work, and then jump on the bus again to go to work. At the end of the day, she was back on the bus, picking up her daughter and heading home as late as 8 pm.
“By the time we arrive home,” Ms. Miller said in her essay, “it is time to cook dinner and get ready to repeat the day’s activities again tomorrow, barely leaving me time to help with my daughter’s school work or to even spend quality time with her. I believe owning a reliable source of transportation would benefit my family greatly.”
The Board of Child Care’s Ways to Work car loan program accepted Ms. Miller’s application and she now gets around town in her 2002 Mazda. The car has allowed her to attend classes at Baltimore City Community College, while also spending more time with her daughter at home and out in the community, attending plays and taking pottery classes together.
“It has helped tremendously,” Ms. Miller says. “I tell anybody I can about the program, because I don’t know if I would have come this far without it.”
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