Kimberley States

On Thursday February, 25th we had a speaker that went thru a lot in her life. Forty years old Kimberley States and mother of two kids stayed on streets for twenty six years . Her presentation was very entertaining and educative. She had a really harsh life, which in a way she choose to go down that path. She came from a good family, but in early age choose to take her own way down the path. She went from being a good person to abusing different kind of drugs, lived on the streets, became a prostitute, and spent some time in jail. Kimberley has been 5 times in prison,she served for 10 years in jail. Thru many years she had serious drug problem. It took Kimberley twenty six year to realize that she is better then being a drug abuser and spending her life in jail and streets. Last time she did in jail she realize that she needs to change her life to better. She had stooped using drugs and other things that she did in past. She is a changed women that is taking care of her self and her family.

Kimberley had talked about how bad it gets when you are living on the streets. Back at the time when she started living on the streets the times was better then now. Random people would give them money and there was not as many homeless people as of now. Now do to recession that is going on in this country a lot of people are loosing their jobs and saving every penny they have. More people are becoming homeless, and less people are giving their change to homeless. She also talked about life in prison. Guards and officers in prisons did not treat them in any respectful way. She made a picture of how jail system really works, and how some of them are not really following the rules. Although her presentation was very good and it showed us that people can change if they want to .