Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers Donates 1600 Diapers to Shining Light Homes After Burglary

Did you know that 1 out of every 3 single mothers struggles with homelessness, food insecurity, and often times have to depend on their community to give them the resources that they need to provide for them and their littles? That's why the attorneys and staff at Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers were so upset when we find out that one of these organizations, Shining Light Homes, was burglarized last week. Maybe you heard the news. Now when we heard the news, we jumped right in, and we were able to donate over 1,600 diapers to Shining Light Homes. Today, we're here at the organization to talk to Ms. Patti Johnson, the executive director and founder of the organization, to find out what else that they may need and hear a little bit more about the organization. Come on in with me as I talk to her.

Hi everybody, Cassidy Lewis here, and I'm here with my friend, Ms. Patti Johnson, founder and director of Shining Light Homes. How you doing today?

I'm doing great, thank you.

Awesome. I want to talk a little bit about your organization. Now your motto is "from hopeless to a home." How does Shining Light Homes- how does your nonprofit- provide for single mothers here in Hampton Roads?

Okay, well we are a homeless prevention nonprofit. Okay, we try to help our mothers with offsetting some of the costs like food, diapers and wipes, baby items like furniture and things that they need for their babies, clothing. We provide education and training. And we help our moms with car repair. And bills; we help pay for their rent, electricity bill, water bill, whatever they're short on.

That's wonderful. That is- that's wonderful. Now, what I understand, you recently had a break-in. What was taken?

Oh, my. It was pretty devastating. They took- we had a 45-inch flat screen TV in the back room, which my intention was to have hanging up in our lobby. We had that taken. We had our training laptops taken. We have 10 Dell laptops that we had, and I had them stored- we don't really have a whole lot of closet space around here, so I had them in our admin office- but these people just rummaged through every single closet, drawer, everything that we had around here.

Okay, let me ask you a question. So, you talked a bit about some of your immediate needs- a flat screen, phone systems, laptops, some things that were taken that helps you educate the single mothers and helps you as an organization operate. What do you see as the future for your organization? What's the easiest way for our friends to make a donation to you? Is it money? Is it items? What is it?

Money is really the thing that makes us have the flexibility to do what we want to do. When you donate online, it goes straight to us. Okay? And then we get it that way and it's immediately can be obtained and used for the things that we want to do. You know, we're really here, but we know that there's such a need in our community. Single moms are falling down all over the place and trying to make it for their kids. You know, they know they don't have anybody else to rely on, and so we want to be able to give them a hand up. I'm serious. It just breaks my heart.

You are- you are doing an outstanding job, Ms.Patti. You are a gem to Portsmouth, Virginia , a gem to Hampton Roads.

I mean, I live here in Portsmouth, okay? But we help everybody in all 7 cities. It's not just here. It's all 7 cities. All the way to Newport News, Hampton, all the way down to Virginia Beach and Suffolk.

That's beautiful, that's beautiful. Friends, you've heard how you can donate here to Shining Light Homes. If you know of a single mother, if you know of a single mother that may need some help, please reach out to Ms. Patti. And we will see you guys next time.

Learn more about Shining Light Homes at https://www.shininglighthomes.org/.

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