HOPE Success Stories

A Journey of Faith and Hope
January 17, 2025This time last year, I was living in transitional housing after being hospitalized for severe depression and suicidal thoughts. Homeless, jobless, and deeply broken, I believed there was no way …
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Virginia Lands Huge Contract with Operation HOPE’s Help
July 23, 2021Virginia Baket-Jeffcoat joined the Operation HOPE family in December, 2020 when she enrolled in the Entrepreneurial Training Program (ETP) facilitated by Ms. Judie Hayes, her financial wellbeing coach. Virginia has …
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Continuing Education in Financial Literacy
September 17, 2021Sybrynia Watts is just like many of us and the people we know. She’s smart, energetic, is a proud mother of three, and gives back to her community. She’s spent …
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Cooking Like Grandma Used To
November 24, 2021Written by Stephanie Leak, Owner of Southern Noodle, HOPE Inside First Horizon Bank, Columbia SC I have always had a dream of following in my grandmother’s footsteps by cooking and …
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Sean Refuses to Let a Minor Setback Stop His Major Success
September 3, 2021Sean Hall made up his mind about his financial goals and never looked back. He began his journey towards financial wellbeing back in March 2020, days before the COVID-19 pandemic …