Ruths Place Walk for Hope [Video]

WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — An annual event that helps women in need is back in Luzerne County. It’s an awareness and fundraising walk that took place in Wilkes-Barre.

Saturday afternoon was the 16 annual walk for Ruth’s Place, a women’s shelter in Wilkes-Barre.

This walk is held every year to raise money and keep the doors open to the place vulnerable women call home.

That’s how one resident of Ruth’s Place describes the place that she now calls home. She is among the less fortunate women in our community experiencing homelessness.

“We’re in a really serious housing crisis right now. I think that we’re all feeling it when we go to the grocery store you know when our bills come in the mail. It’s harder and harder and harder to make ends meet,” said Crystal Kotlowski the senior director at Volunteers of America Pennsylvania.

As a result of times being tough for some people, …