PLYMOUTH — "I had run out of all options. I really didn't have anyplace to go," one new mother told WSBT. She was eight months pregnant and without friends and family when she discovered people who cared at Rachel's Home in Plymouth.

Peggy Hatfield and her family founded the home in 1993 after her daughter got pregnant as a high school senior.

Since then, it has given dozens of women a place to live and eat for free. Each year the home tries to take in three or four women and help them through their pregnancies.

But the home has been closed off and on over the past 15 years because of funding issues. Rachel's Home is in need of repair and money and donations aren't coming in right now.

"Many times it's only through God that's kept us going," Hatfield said.

From bottles to linens to food, everything in Rachel's Home is donated.

Volunteers make sure the expectant mothers get to doctors appointments, counseling and parenting classes.

There are also many repairs needed around the home. The walls need new trim and the deck is rotting. The sink pipes are also leaking into the basement.

"Once we think we've fixed it, something else pops up," said house parent Christian Burman.

Burman and her husband are paid to stay at Rachel's Home 24 hours a day. But right now funds are so low she and her husband aren't getting paid.

"They're standing on faith believing that they'll be paid," said Rachel's Home founder Peggy Hatfield. "And we will pay them."

But Christian Burman says watching women go through the home and have their babies in a safe environment is enough of a reward.

"There are good people out there," said one new mother. "I was losing faith in people [before I came here]."

New mothers and their babies are allowed to stay at Rachel's Home up to 6 weeks after the delivery. From there the home helps her find a place on her own.

If you'd like to help Rachel's Home, the board of directors is always looking for volunteers to take the girls to doctor's appointments or donate any kind of clothing items — for both expecting mothers and for newborns.

Rachel's Home is having a car wash in the K-Mart parking lot in Plymouth on July 19 from 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.

To find out more about how you can help, call the home. The number is (574) 935-3953. You can get more information at their website, www.rachelshome.org.