Waiting
for Wheels
The following excerpts are taken from pending
applications:
A nursing student who is working full
time and taking care of two babies by herself.
She is currently relying on cabs, buses and
friends for rides to work and school. She
wants to be able to take her children to
daycare, study at the library and not worry
anymore about how she will get to work or
college each day. She says
she never realized how important a vehicle
was until she no longer had one.
A working mom who is not only caring
for her daughter but also for her mother, who
recently suffered a stroke. She
needs transportation to get to work, to take
her daughter to school, and to take her mother
to doctor’s appointments and speech therapy.
A woman who searched 8 months and
finally landed a good job--then her car was
totaled in an accident. Because
she still has an outstanding loan balance on
a car that is no longer drivable, she cannot
afford to buy another vehicle. She needs
reliable transportation in order to keep the
job she worked so hard to find.
A young, single mother who
takes the bus to her health care job at an
assisted living facility. She enjoys
helping people and would like to stay in the
medical field, and she has dreams of becoming
a pharmacy technician to make a better life
for herself and her infant daughter. Reliable
transportation would allow her to pursue
her education while continuing to work and
care for her baby. |
Wheels
of Success is Tampa Bay's only 501(c)3 nonprofit organization
providing a full range of transportation solutions, including
vehicle replacement; car repair; and licensing, car payment and
down payment assistance to low and moderate income working families.