Mentoring young girls and building a community is important for this Northside Jacksonville non-profit.

Jewels of the Future mentors girls aged 7-18 to build community and shows them how to make a difference in it. The non-profit is operated by Diamond Wallace and her mother, Renita Turner, but it was started in 2016 in memory of Wallace’s grandmother, who passed away from breast cancer.

“She was an angel in the community, she loved her family and so she would always do these events with kids, so now we do a bunch of events and programming around children just to make sure that they’re still on the right track,” Wallace said. “We give them a safe space to say whatever they feel is important to them.”

She said that everyone needs a village, and bonds can be created if people support one

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