Our mission is to provide food, educational services, counseling, coaching, training, and other resources to at risk youth, individuals and families in order to break cycles of poverty and build healthy futures.

It’s also to serve our at risk community with love, acceptance, respect, dignity and compassion.  As well as facilitating access to social services for those who are at risk of poverty in our community by partnering with other governmental, community, nonprofit or educational agencies in Clark County Washington.

To see lives in our community, freed from poverty, one life at a time.

• ONE LIFE is a non-profit charitable community service organization that serves at risk youth, individuals and families in Clark County Washington.
  
  We believe it’s about social justice, ending hunger, providing education, helping people become free from poverty and seeing every person treated with the respect and dignity they deserve. We want to give generously out of what we have to those who have not. We want to be known as a place that really cares about the individual. Where we hear each person’s story and we listen more than talk. An organization where we see past the exterior and the circumstances in people’s lives, but instead focus on the potential destiny that is in each one of us, and helping meet the needs of an individual one life at a time.
  
  As Mother Teresa put it “We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty". Our greatest joy is to see lives transformed out of poverty by compassion, acceptance, respect, service and love.

• From July 2010 to July 2011 375,482 people ate meals from an emergency food box.
• 38% of those receiving food are children.
• Our poverty rate surged to 12.7% in 2010 according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau report.
• Unemployment remains very high.
• Cuts to government safety net programs have increased the need on organizations like ONE LIFE.

A ONE LIFE Story:

"My friend brought me here when I was worried about feeding my family! I am very grateful for everything I get and try things I never had before! Now my husband is laid off and we need the help more than ever! Thank you so much and keep up the good work!"

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