"The sight of that little girl, rummaging through garbage with not a thread on her body, changed me forever. At that moment, I knew my life wasn’t meant for designing clothes. It was meant for giving these children the love and care they were deprived of. Since then, every abandoned child has become my own. I am their Mumma, and they are my world."- Manan, tearfully | Milaap

Last night! I told Juju she was going to wear THE EXACT hairstyle the made fun of, for school today.. with her natural hair out & she said “Mommy, Can you at least flat iron it?” It broke me to my core. I spent all night & morning reminding her how beautiful she is. How beautiful it is to be a black person with beautiful black features & she should embrace. I feel like I’m talking my child off the ledge… I just feel that I have a responsibility to make sure she’s mentally ok bc so many parents d

I adopted a baby left at the fire station — 5 years later, a woman knocked on my door and said, "YOU HAVE TO GIVE MY CHILD BACK." I still remember the night I found him — a tiny bundle wrapped in a worn-out blanket, left in a basket near my fire station. It was my shift, and the cold wind howled as if mourning the little soul abandoned to fate. He was barely a week old, his cries weak but determined. My colleague, Joe, and I exchanged glances, unspoken words passing between us. "We’ll call CPS,"