Since then, she has helped 6,111 people in Cleveland, Ohio with warm winter gear, including hats, gloves, socks, handwarmers and hygiene care packages called ‘Blessing Bags’. A total of 52 walls of helpful items have been created by Jackson around the Cleveland area.

Jackson paid for signs to be displayed on the walls out of her own money, each sign costing $80 (around £60) each. Six of the signs went missing from the ‘walls’ which encourage people to donate needed items or cash to the cause. After posting about the missing signs on social media, Jackson was inundated with offers to replace them.

“I was very sad when some of the wall’s signs came up missing,” she says. “However, when the news covered the story a very gracious bunch of people, including two different sign companies, offered to replace them free of charge because they love what I’m doing.”

… a very gracious bunch of people, including two different sign companies, offered to replace them free of charge because they love what I’m doing”

Visual Marking Systems, a signage and graphics company based in nearby Twinsburg, stepped in and offered to replace all the missing signs, free of charge.

Jackson adds: “That meant the world to me and I am so honoured and thankful that they did that for me so I can continue to help people in the community and not have to pay for the signs all over again.”

It wasn’t just sign companies that stepped in to help with replacing the signs. Jackson also received a handmade sign from students at Campus International School at Cleveland State University who heard about the missing signs. “I’m just so honoured and humbled by the love and support from everywhere,” says Jackson.

Walls of Love is hosting a fundraiser on April 7th to help raise more money for those in need in Cleveland.

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