Heal Your Heart, a Chicago philanthropic foundation, is helping students as a new school year begins by giving away book bags and gift cards.
With book bag and school supply giveaways ramping up for the 2022-23 school year, a philanthropic organization focused on bringing healing to mothers who have lost children to Chicago gun violence is donating clothing essentials to students returning to school.decided to aim to strengthen the self-esteem of some of the youth from the LowEnd families have experienced loss of members. The LowEnd has lost several people and children to gun violence,” said Heal Your Heart founder and former Ida B.
. The residents of Ida B. Wells, Madden Park, the Darrow Homes and other nearby housing projects were scattered across the city “and lost their sense of community,” Mitchell said.Octavia Mitchell hosts a Mother's Day event in support of Heal Your Heart, a philanthropic organization focused on bringing healing to mothers who have lost children to Chicago gun violence, May 8, 2022. Mitchell lost her son Izael Jackson 11 years ago after he was fatally wounded by police.
This Sunday the Clarence Darrow Homes reunion will take place, behind Walter H. Dyett High School for the Arts in Washington Park at 51st Street and King Drive. There will be numerous raffle giveaways between 2 to 6 p.m. of $25 gift cards for undergarments.
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