Edmund has lived many lives.

He’s been an English teacher in Japan, a restitution researcher in Germany, a painter, a farmer, a mechanic, and a writer. He’s crossed continents and cultures, shared dinner with a Chinese general, and once narrowly escaped a green Rolls-Royce in Hong Kong. But after years of movement, loss, and reinvention, Edmund found himself in Kulpmont, Pennsylvania - starting over in a one-bedroom apartment, wondering what home could feel like again.

It was a DIG delivery that first caught his eye…

When Gina took her child, Phoenix, to a concert for their sixteenth birthday, she didn’t know it would spark a chain of events that would completely reshape both of their lives.

The concert - a night of music, love, and laughter - was meant to be a celebration. But in the days that followed, Phoenix’s father began to escalate his control. Accusations flew. Emotional abuse intensified. Gina, who had already given up her own household to live simply and share space with a friend, found herself thrust into emergency custody of Phoenix, navigating a system she never expected to enter.

Phoenix, dealing with the compounded trauma of years of mistreatment, relapsed soon after returning to Gina’s care. What followed was a storm of loss and uncertainty: medical interventions, eviction from their temporary living arrangement, and the painful uncovering of abuse. It was a moment of reckoning, of survival, and of fierce maternal love.

But then came support…

When Eugenie, Jean Pierre, and their daughters, Hope and Happy, arrived in Milton in December 2024, they were stepping into more than just a new town: they were stepping into safety, stability, and possibility for the first time in years.

Originally from Burundi, their journey had taken them through South Africa, where they sought refuge and built a life running supermarkets. But as xenophobic violence escalated, their stores were destroyed, their lives threatened, and their sense of safety shattered. For years, they lived in fear - hiding in churches, surviving on prayers and kindness, waiting for something to change.

And then, it did…