Viola Davis is pouring $1.2 million into the Rhode Island community that helped raise her. The EGOT winner and her husband, actor Julius Tennon, made the donation through their Davis-Tennon Foundation to build a new community hub in Central Falls—the same city where Davis once faced crushing poverty, hunger, and unstable housing.
According to The Boston Globe, the Mary Alice Davis Family Engagement Center, named for Davis' mother, will put a wide range of services under one roof. The facility will include an expanded food pantry, a parent resource center, workforce development and financial literacy programs, educational workshops, meeting **** e for nonprofits, and the foundation's permanent headquarters. Its current food pantry already serves roughly 3,000 people every month.
"For me, this has always been about possibility," Davis said in a statement. "Every person deserves to be seen. Every family deserves opportunity. Every child deserves to grow up believing their future is larger than their circumstances."
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Those circumstances were once Davis' own. Born in South Carolina in 1965, she moved to Central Falls as a baby and spent much of her childhood in what she has described as "abject poverty."
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According to The Boston Globe, the Mary Alice Davis Family Engagement Center, named for Davis' mother, will put a wide range of services under one roof. The facility will include an expanded food pantry, a parent resource center, workforce development and financial literacy programs, educational workshops, meeting **** e for nonprofits, and the foundation's permanent headquarters. Its current food pantry already serves roughly 3,000 people every month.
"For me, this has always been about possibility," Davis said in a statement. "Every person deserves to be seen. Every family deserves opportunity. Every child deserves to grow up believing their future is larger than their circumstances."
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Those circumstances were once Davis' own. Born in South Carolina in 1965, she moved to Central Falls as a baby and spent much of her childhood in what she has described as "abject poverty."
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