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Photographer Christina Cannon send this email around today; please do what you can. Her verbatim email follows:

Hi Friends! Below is information about a family who lost their home to a fire. They are in dire need of clothes today! I will come pick them up from you or you can drop them off to me at the studio between now and Saturday. Call or message me if you can help! Thank you!

His Heart Family – House burned down – in need of clothes and future housing

One of the neediest families that goes to His Heart had a house fire this past weekend – they lost everything.
The Red Cross has them in a room in a hotel on Highway 80 but they are having to work out other housing arrangements for the future.
The mom and dad have 2 sons, 2 daughters
They have an immediate need for CLOTHES – Please bring to Bellwether Church on Sunday if you have the following sizes:

Girls:
Pants: 14-16 (girls’ sizes) 3 (junior sizes)
Shirts: 14-16 (girls’ sizes), Youth medium, adult small/extra smallBoys:
Pants: 38 waist , 28 or 29 inseam
Shirts: Medium and Large (adult sizes)

Mom:
Women’s pant size: 22
Shirt: XL

Dad:
Pants: 34×29
Medium shirt

Photography by Christina
2906 N. State St. #107
Jackson, Ms. 39216
http://www.christinafoto.com
601-713-1224

Founding Editor Donna Ladd is a writer, journalist and editor from Philadelphia, Miss., a graduate of Mississippi State University and later the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she was an alumni award recipient in 2021. She writes about racism/whiteness, poverty, gender, violence, journalism and the criminal justice system. She contributes long-form features and essays to The Guardian when she has time, and was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Jackson Free Press. She co-founded the statewide nonprofit Mississippi Free Press with Kimberly Griffin in March 2020, and the Mississippi Business Journal named her one of the state's top CEOs in 2024. Read more at donnaladd.com, follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @donnerkay and email her at donna@mississippifreepress.org.