Local giving circle reaches out to homeless women and children
October 18, 2010
Here's a story about how these local ladies are coming together to give back and help homeless women and children in their community:
"Women's Giving Circle focuses on helping the homeless"
(The Fayetteville Observer)
A home helped change the trajectory of J.R. Williams' life. "We were doomed, statistically speaking," Williams told a group of about 80 people at the Holiday Inn Bordeaux Tuesday morning.
When he was 9, his family lived in housing that was unreliable and sub-par at best. Both his parents had grown up poor, and his mother had gotten pregnant with Williams at age 17. It wasn't a promising life script.
Then the family was able to get a home through Habitat for Humanity and, through it, they achieved stability and the opportunity for a better life. "It meant so much to us," said Williams, who went on to graduate near the top of his high school class and then to both UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke. He's now a first vice president and regional business development manager with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in Charlotte.
His listeners included people from throughout the community who'd been invited by the Women's Giving Circle of Fayetteville to help brainstorm ideas to help homeless women and children in Cumberland County. The philanthropic group concentrates on local projects that meet the basic needs of food, shelter or health care for women and children, and members said Tuesday that homelessness is a particular problem...
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