When Every Mile Matters

When WUSA9's Impact team got to Stafford Junction, they had a problem -- and they were hoping we could help them fix it.

In an old community center across from a barren field in Fredericksburg, Virginia there’s kinetic energy flowing through every part of the modular space.

It’s a warm August day, weeks before the start of school year.

This space is filled with possibility.

School supplies waiting to be packed into carefully selected backpacks.

The buzz of hair clippers and squirmy children who sit, albeit impatiently, for their clip and cut.

“You have to heal the family before you can really help the child.”

- Carrie Evans, Executive Director – Stafford Junction

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