United Way Baby Shower helps families

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Published: Jun. 24, 2019 at 7:03 PM CDT
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United Way in Bismarck hosts a baby shower every year to help families in the community by supplying different baby essentials.

Welcome House in Bismarck is one of the many organizations that gets the gift baskets and distributes them.

This is Danielle Williams. She moved to Bismarck about a year ago, and says the only thing she and her children had when they came here, were the clothes they brought with them.

"I had my son, and when I had my son, I didn't have anything. I didn't have clothes, I didn't have diapers, I wasn't prepared at all," said Williams.

She says she doesn't think people who donate, realize how much they help people in difficult circumstances.

"When you're going through something like that, you know being homeless not having anything or anybody, it's like hey, this is one less thing you have to worry about," she added.

Danielle fled from a long time abusive relationship. She says she didn't have family to turn to because they didn't know if she was going to ever leave.

"It was a really help in a step moving forward so I would not go back to my previous situation because when you get in a situation like that and you feel like you don't have anywhere to go, you go, I'm going to end up going where I was," said Williams.

The United Way baby shower was just the first step to get her back on her feet, and Welcome House showed her other opportunities to become independent.

"There are places you can go to get help for finding a job, there's housing, there's food pantries and things like that," said Williams.

Williams now lives in her own home with her five children, and works at Welcome House. She says this is her opportunity to give back to other women and families. Her number one goal, is to give her children stability.

Welcome House says it will be having a night with the Larks where 25 percent of each ticket will go to the organization. You can purchase the ticket on larkstickets.com and use the promo code, WELCOME.