woletta garmon – a mother’s story
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Mercy Home For Boys & Girls
In 1994, Woletta Garmon was a high school dropout living in a homeless shelter when she placed her first child in the Mercy Home For Boys & Girls. Over the course of the next 14 years, Garmon placed two more of her six children into the home, allowing its programs to do the nurturing she couldn’t do herself.
Today, Garmon has a high school diploma and is currently working on her college degree — all of which wouldn’t have been possible without Mercy.
“You see how the youth is today — a lot them are getting killed. It’s not the old people dying anymore, it’s our youth dying. They’re not dying at 17 and 18, they’re starting at 8 and 9,” says Garmon, who also is a member of Mercy’s family support committee. “[At] Mercy Home — you can address a lot of that and it saves a lot of — not just the kids lives — but it saves a family as a whole.”
Garmon attests that if Mercy had not been there to help provide a place to raise her children, she would have lost her family. “Mercy plays a big part in my family life,” she says. “It’s like my second family. They were there when nobody was there.”
Garmon attests that if Mercy had not been there to help provide a place to raise her children, she would have lost her family. “Mercy plays a big part in my family life,” she says. “It’s like my second family. They were there when nobody was there.” –gavin philip godfrey
