After becoming homeless, Connie Wade realized
she’d be missing something critical to care for
her daughter.
She and 12-year-old Emilyanne couldn’t camp
in a car or on the streets because they need to
plug in a machine that helps the girl breathe
easier. Emilyanne has Down syndrome and
her breathing is interrupted every six minutes
without a CPAP device.
A typical open-space homeless shelter promised
them a spot by an electrical outlet, but Wade felt
they’d be too vulnerable.
Then they got an offer from Mary’s Place, a
family homeless shelter that recently opened
a facility inside a gleaming new building on
Amazon’s Seattle campus. Believed to be the