D. was a single mother who worked three jobs to provide for her two children and aging mother.

42 year old T. was an office manager in Colorado, happily married and busy raising two adolescent boys. Plagued with health problems, she found herself in and out of the hospital in early 2003, losing weeks of her much needed income.

R. was a hardworking husband and father in his thirties. A world away from his birthplace, his young family in New York was now his whole world.