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Photos by Alphonso Abbott Jr. While we are socially distanced during this holiday season, it's our prayer that you and your family remain healthy and hopeful. Merry Christmas! -The Chronicle Staff Local nonprofit provides gifts for families in Boston-Thurmond Community BY TEVIN STINSON THE CHRONICLE Earlier this week vol unteers with the local non- profit MY FACE, Inc. did their part to ensure more than two dozen children in the community wake up on Christmas morning with something under the tree. Volunteers delivered gifts to children whose parents are in the non-prof it’s MENTOR (Mentoring in Empowerment, Nurturing, Opportunities, Respon sibility) project, a hands- on program that provides mentoring, career devel opment, community re sources and other tools for families in need through out Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. MY FACE initiated the MENTOR project in 2019 with only two families and in just a year’s time that number has grown to more submitted photo MY FACE, Inc. did their part to help families this year. than 30. Founder Dothula Baron said MY FACE and the MENTOR project started as just an idea she had one day, but with help from a few dedicated vol unteers like Mattie Peebles and several local orga nizations like Neighbors for Better Neighborhoods (NBN), that idea has be come reality. Baron said after doing her homework, she was able to get a grant from NBN to get things started and everything else just seemed to fall in place. “All I know is the idea just came to me. I just felt that mentoring was a great way to help young mothers,” Baron said. “For years I’ve been sold on working with women. Women’s pro grams, women’s transfor mation, women empower- See gifts on A8 — CM Can a Healthy Lifestyle PROTECT Older adults from Memory Loss? Join the U.S. POINTER Study 8 13.36] 7S91 puhiterstudyT’iwakc^^ Merry Christmas
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