We’ve all walked past a homeless person looking for some help, and thought, how did they end up there? But instead of helping, we look the other way and hurry past. Even those who want to help sometimes struggle with where to start. But Minnesota restaurant owner, Cesia Abigail Baires, knew just how she wanted to help when she was approached by a man on the street one day…
Begging for a Change
When a homeless man entered Cesia’s cafe one day, she decided to do something out of the norm. Tired from working nonstop and barely making ends meet, she couldn’t help him with money, so instead, she had another idea of how she would help this man out…
Cesia’s restaurant called Abi’s Café was rapidly going downhill, and there was be nothing she could do to stop it. She worked all the hours she could to keep the business going, but nothing seemed to be working…
Cesia’s El Salvadorean restaurant wasn’t a business that had money to spare. But after meeting Marcus, something in Cesia changed. Baires told the New York Daily News during an interview that she had “seen him going up and down on Main Street before like a lot of other homeless people. He came in asking for money. I told him nothing is given for free here. Even my family pays when they come in here!”