Catholic Charities helps woman find, hold onto job

By Paul McMullen of the Catholic Review

December 16, 2010

Shari Lynn Preston makes a point about the power of Catholic Charities at the 30th Annual Leadership Breakfast Celebration.

Shari Lynn Preston nodded out a window in the dining room at Our Daily Bread Employment Center in Baltimore.

“I was on the line,” she proclaimed. “I came through those doors, and was treated with respect. I learned to keep my mental state together. … Now, a lot of the people I broke bread with here are on my bus.”

Happy and fulfilled with her job as a driver of the Charm City Circulator, Preston was the guest speaker at the 30th annual Catholic Charities Leadership Breakfast Dec. 8 – six months after she came seeking help.

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