Silent Samaritan Fund: Helping Women in Need

Current statistics indicate that approximately 50% of all marriages end in divorce. But, statistics are merely cold, hard numbers. Numbers are not alive; they do not have feelings; they are not women. Numbers can never describe the mental anguish of near destitute single mothers, abused women, nor women left to support themselves without marketable skills. Not included in divorce statistics is the heartbreak of sudden widowhood, nor the pain of women who remain in unhappy and often harmful marriages. The list goes on. The image is bleak, but the future need not be without hope.

Hope and healing, gifts that counseling & therapy can bring, are often far out of the financial reach of many of these women. They are hardly able to put food on the table and provide shelter for their families, and cannot begin to consider the benefit of professional counseling. Women rarely put themselves first or even place their own needs in the hierarchy of concerns. But, research tells us that when we don’t take care of ourselves, when we are not emotionally and physically healthy, we are incapable of successfully caring for others.

The Silent Samaritan Fund was created to subsidize counseling for women and children without financial ability to access the support of a professional therapist.  Here at Samaritan Center, we are currently subsidizing approximately $2,000 each month in therapy for women.

Please open your hearts and help us to support these women and children in our own communities by donating to the Silent Samaritan Fund. Each $100 donation can provide three counseling sessions for a woman or child in need of support. If you are unable to give $100, but would like to help, any amount you can give will be of great assistance to the women we help. We know how much these women appreciate knowing that the care and support they receive has come from people in their communities.

You can become a Silent Samaritan with your tax deductible check or credit card contribution. Please make it payable to the Samaritan Counseling Center, note that it is for the Silent Samaritan Fund and mail it to our center at 690 Oak Street, Winnetka, Illinois 60093.  OR use the PayPal button on the left  of this webpage and specify Silent Samaritan Fund in the "Instructions for Recipient" area.

Thank you for helping a woman find new hope and meaning in her life.