Mocksville community organization faces uncertain future amid federal funding cuts

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MOCKSVILLE, N.C. —

Federal funding cuts have impacted the Winston-Salem Urban League and the hundreds they serve for months.

Now, we are seeing the ripple effects, as a critical community outreach agency in Mocksville that relies on its funding says it's facing an uncertain future.
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Krystal Dumas has owned and operated Just Hope in Mocksville for the past 15 years.

“The last probably four months have just been terrifying, and I feel like it's just getting worse and worse," said Dumas.

She said she started the business out of her home and car, hand-delivering food and clothes to people in need.

“The amount of lives that's been touched in 15 years, I can only imagine. But I started this simply because when I moved back home after going to school, I seen that we didn't have a homeless shelter. We didn't have a domestic violence shelter," she said.

And now they have expanded, becoming a safe haven for the people of Mocksville, anyone experiencing hardship from homelessness to family crisis. Offering services like food, clothes and even therapy.

“People come here to just hope when they don't have hope," she said.

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https://www.wxii12.com/article/mocksville-just-hope-community-federal-funding-cuts-uncertainty/65381755

This is a disgraceful story about a thrift store being forced to close in North Carolina due to Federal budget cuts.

My friend is seeking employment and is pushing 80 years old as she needs to work to be able to live.

This is grotesque.

Thanks for nothing Der Führer. How you sicken me so!

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2. I know this place...

I'm in clemmons. Good to meet you Countallvotes !

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3. Nice to find you too essaynnc!

there!!!

My friend is in a hell of a mess as her husband died and left her with nothing!

Oh how can I ever relate (same story here; 44 years together and I end up getting $23 a month in food stamps and that is the end of it!).

My mother's family is originally from that part of NC. I've never been there but it sounds like a RED hell to me!

Again, nice to find you.

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4. Mocksville is in the next county over.

I'm in Winston-Salem, and the difference is pretty much night and day. We're not a big city, but we're bigger than mocksville! They are pretty much rural, we're a combination of rural and urban. Urban. Another blue dot

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