- Jeff and Rocky Turner
Jeff and Racquel Turner are two favorite people of mine.
Not because Racquel has a heart as wide and deep as the Mississippi River –or because Jeff so unselfishly shares his technological expertise with so many. Rather, they both hold out a helping hand to people and causes that can use a lift.
A few years ago, Rocky realized that orphaned girls in Africa were missing precious days of school because they had no underwear. Something as simple as a pair of undies could hold a pad that could carry a girl through a day of her period and a day of school. That became one of the initial causes for Mothers Fighting for Others.
Dresses and other items of clothing might be purchased second-hand at open air markets. Second-hand underwear, though, are forbidden by the government–likely because of sexually-transmitted disease fears.
Rocky started a campaign for new underwear for African orphans and met with overwhelming response. It was a niche charity that touched the hearts of so many and Rocky took it upon herself to lug hundreds of pounds of underwear on subsequent trips to Africa.
These days, she is working hard to get these orphaned girls into boarding schools to help prepare them for productive lives. And the two of them are fierce fighters against human trafficking and human slavery.
Jeff and Rocky (in particular) have opened their hearts and voices to their causes–and the world is a finer place because of these two.
Turner is making us aware, once again, of the tragedy surrounding human slavery:
