After the death of your father in 2000, Hosea Helps has been a woman-led organization for 21 years, servicing the metro Atlanta area. How did your leadership influence the organization to also provide aid to the nation during natural disasters?
My leadership as a female energy presents itself as “the mother.” As the mother, I operate as an empath and feel the pain of the community within. I’m not the only one like this. Also, because of the divine feminine operating in me, I am creative giving birth to programs and initiatives as I am shown by the people who share their needs with me. We are not here to tell the community what they need, we are here to listen and hear them tell mama what’s wrong. Being a Black woman, I am often overlooked by certain kinds of people who believe a man should be the CEO. There are people who believe the legacy of my parents should have been passed on to a male child.
How does Hosea Helps differ from other charities?
In this food distribution center, any individual can walk in and be fed, we feed people through our 20 community partners, we deliver food to apartment complexes and seniors high-rises, we send food around the country to help in disasters from Katrina to Flint to the flood currently in Kentucky. Hosea Helps, Inc. is very flexible in its decision-making. We will meet the need wherever it is. Also, we inherited direct service to the community from the civil rights movement. Hosea Helps Inc. knows how to suck it in and fight the good fight for the people.
