For ten years, Gaby Bobadilla worked security part-time, often overnight. She and her three kids relied on cash aid and Medi-Cal to supplement her wages. But the solitary work didn’t satisfy the 30-year-old Desert Hot Springs resident, who now enthusiastically tells stories about the people she works with every day.
Ten months ago, Bobadilla left security for a bright purple office at Cathedral City’s nonprofit Cathedral Center. A chair beside her desk holds a pile of folders full of logistics for a September health fair she’s helping to organize. She also juggles appointments with seniors who need help with government assistance forms alongside managerial tasks for the food pantry — which she helped grow from feeding 90 families a month to feeding 388.
Three months ago Bobadilla and her family stopped collecting cash aid.
[For more of this story, written by Rosalie Murphy, go to http://www.desertsun.com/story...gram-works/30681955/]
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