Barton pays for bus tickets, offers food, provides shoes and helps homeless people throughout Jacksonville apply for veteran assistance.
Barton provides shoes to homeless people in Jacksonville by organizing a shoe drive, Sole-to-Soul. She also runs a non-profit called The Village of Hope and Healing.JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — It is estimated that Jacksonville has about 3,400 homeless people. However, there aren't enough shelter beds to compensate, with only around 1,100 to provide, according to Changing Homelessness, a homeless prevention agency based in Jacksonville.
Barton says she usually keeps a pair of shoes in her trunk just incase she runs into someone in Downtown Jacksonville who doesn't own a pair. Essential items that are often taken for granted like a pair of socks or something to eat is when Barton comes and steps in. To Barton, paying it forward is her calling. Her pedigree of community service spans over 20 years, but she upped the ante in 2020.
Barton's gift is providing shoes to neighbors without a home in Jacksonville by organizing a shoe drive known as Sole-to-Soul. Additionally, Barton runs a non-profit organization called. Her efforts do not stop at shoes. Barton stays ready to serve: offering food, paying for a bus ticket or helping someone apply for veterans assistance. Barton even keeps a storage unit full of donated clothes, just in case.
Through her work, Barton is inspiring her family and friends to be a part of the solution to solving homelessness in Jacksonville. Her goal, she says is to also help them transition out of the streets. Barton's older sister, Stephanie Smith-Narcisse, says words cannot express how proud she is of her.
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