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It is dangerous in the streets.

I didn't really have my mom and my father.

They had their own stuff to worry about.

- [Interviewer] You were homeless at 13?

Mm-hmm.

- [CEO] Some of the stories of these women,

you would just crumble under the circumstances in which they've come through.

My boy! Where'd you go?

I marvel at their strength.

- Where is my baby? - How are you? - Oh, I'm great. How are you?

St. Mary's Center for Women and Children...

- [Mother] Oh, they moved the playroom around.

...represents hope.

- [Mother] Let's see if it's still here.

It's a palpable sense of gratitude

as you walk through the hallways here.

- We used to live here. We used to live here a couple years ago.

- We lived here? - Yeah, you was a baby. - Yeah.

- [Instructor] Good morning, everyone. Thank you for being here.

- [CEO] Our mission is to break intergenerational poverty.

- Research what else is coming.

- [CEO] The way we do that is provide emotional wellbeing,

educational achievement,...

- [Woman] It's good to talk about it.

- ... and economic opportunities.

My name is Solinette Villodas. I'm 19.

At the age of 15, I got pregnant, and that's when I came here.

I have two boys.

The youngest is Eli and the oldest is Adrian.

- [CEO] Amazon is providing a million dollar gift to us that we need to match.

This opportunity will allow us to actually prevent homelessness

by providing a safety net before someone loses their home.

Oh come here! (laughing)

I feel like St. Mary's set me up to be out on my own.

Now I'm in my second year of criminal justice with Roxbury Community College.

- St. Mary's really was, like, the only one support that I really had for these past couple years.

I do feel safe in here.