JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Northwest Jacksonville charity was honored by a neighborhood journal for its work in giving sources to households in underserved communities.
Jewels of the Future hosted a toy drive at its annual Christmas get together a couple of weeks in the past on Moncrief Street.
Children got toys, footwear, and faculty uniforms.
The co-founders of the charity are mom and daughter Renita Turner and Diamond Wallace. They mentioned that is their ardour.
“We similar to to carry the sources to the group as a result of folks don’t know what’s on the market,” Turner mentioned.
Jewels of the Future is gracing the duvet of December’s version of the Duval Join Journal. It labels itself as a community-based journal that gives platforms to what it considers silent heroes, group occasions, and something taking place in Duval County.
“We have now been part of completely different packages,” Wallace mentioned. “We’re part of the identify adjustments at our faculties that defeated the tons of of years of racist historical past. We’ve gone from events which have seen 30 youngsters to how tons of of youngsters at our occasions. There aren’t any phrases to explain that sort of happiness and the enjoyment that we see from our children.”
Wallace and Turner mentioned they have been impressed to launch Jewels of the Future by Turner’s mom, Angela Daniels, who died from breast most cancers in 2006.
Daniels labored as a licensed nursing assistant primarily in nursing properties. She finally grew to become a nursing house’s leisure director and arranged occasions for the residents there.
“Each time she did an occasion, she introduced youngsters as a result of the youngsters all the time made the older folks really feel nice,” Turner mentioned. “At these events, she made it enjoyable for the youngsters, for older folks. She all the time did for others, that was her factor. She was essentially the most selfless person who I knew.”
Since 2018, the group has been attempting to satisfy the wants they see of their group and discover options to issues they are saying exist.
“We see youngsters that want garments, we see youngsters who’re hungry,” Turner mentioned. “We see youngsters who can’t even get first rate grooming. We have now to have sources.”
We have now to have sources for working households which can be attempting their hardest and simply can’t make it. We like to have the ability to incorporate distributors at our occasions, and if [another] group isn’t in your youngster, right here is one other one,” Turner mentioned.
In February, the group will host a Black historical past group potluck to feed the homeless whereas educating youngsters. In addition they plan to have performances together with poetry, singing and dancing.
“It isn’t simply all about sitting down within the classroom and studying historical past, however being part of historical past, however being part of historical past,” Wallace mentioned. “We wish to train our children that their future can also be part of Black historical past.”
Turner and Wallace mentioned they simply wish to maintain doing the work on the Northside their beloved mom and grandmother did to create change.
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