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Local Real Estate Agent’s Non Profit Program Goes National
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In 2006, Windermere Real Estate agent Elissa Davey founded the Garden of Innocence, a non-profit organization whose goal is to provide proper burials for abandoned children and her program is spreading nationwide.
With gardens planned for Las Vegas, St. Louis, Houston, New Jersey, Michigan and others, Davey plans to help cities across the U.S. provide a dignified place for abandoned and unidentified children to rest.
“It isn’t about me or what I did in the beginning,” said Davey. “It is about a tiny baby that was thrown away and needs the recognition and love of people to make a point that this child was here even for a short time.”
Davey, who said she was inspired by Hillary Clinton’s book, It Takes a Village: and Other Lessons Children Teach Us, received the “Hometown Heroes Award” in July 2002 for her commitment to community through her organization. However she says that the big story isn’t about her.
“We don’t know who started the Red Cross or Salvation Army; we just know it is there. I would like that to be the way Garden of Innocence is seen as well, it doesn’t matter how it got started, just that it exists.”
Nearly 100 babies have been given proper burials in the Garden of Innocence in San Diego thanks to Davey and her co-founder Pastor Netreia Carroll as well as their team of volunteers.
For more information on the Garden of Innocence or to make a donation, visit www.gardenofinnocence.com.
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