Board of Legacy

VIPHUGS.org is partnering up with local communities internationally and in the U.S. to help ship and build out container homes for the families left homeless in the Grand Bahamas. We currently have partnered up with Purto Rico Rising and we have 60 volunteers 7 chefs and will be cooking hot meals for 6 months starting Oct. 15th, 2019. We have two secured locations and over 100k in donated supplies and food

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Phase one of our first goal is to reach $500,000 dollars to bring in 50 homes.

The Board Of Legacy educates, teaches, consults and helps minority and underprivileged, youth and their families, and single-parent families get the support and economic development resources they need.

Our purpose is driven by the utilization of hands-on education and implementation of leadership development, life skills, real estate mentorship programs, financial support, spiritual encouragement and creative events, free financial literacy courses, and various other networking opportunities and resources. We foster environments of entrepreneurship, business ownership as a means to create and leave a legacy to each generation.

The Forgotten Homeless Needs Program was founded in 2009 the day a homeless man died of the cold across the street from the San Diego Homeless Shelter . Since then, our program has grown to become a large mobile street team in our area, we are now currently servicing the DFW area and The Grand Bahamas.

Each month our team assembles in forgotten area's delivering sleeping bags, coats, hats, gloves and blankets in the colder weather — to those struggling to survive rough on the streets we are at random stops around the city and highways, for many homeless this is their only way to stay dry and warm in the colder seasons.

We also provide warm showers, hair cuts, and shaves, shoes and clothing items through out the year.

In our 10 year history, the program has distributed more than several hundreds of thousands of dollars of items and food — allowing us to build an invaluable level of trust among some of the hardest to reach and most marginalized of our homeless neighbors. Our team, which includes a Mobile Team, uses that trust to connect those on the streets with other life-changing services provided through HUGGS United, Focus International, Puerto Rico Rising and various charities such as referrals to psychiatric treatment, medical care, substance abuse treatment, or shelters , food and clothing and vital benefits offered by the Bridge and partner organizations.

Volunteers — who help us hand out the items and drive the vans — are the lifeblood of BOL-Forgotten Homless Needs Program, and usually commit to one day per month. We are thankful for all the services.

We thank Mississippi State University for all the perishable items this winter!!!

The program offers both personal and professional skills, setting them up to succeed. We have a trade work program as well as second chance leaseing.

“Those that were once incarcerated — non-violent offenders basically.. into a new setting, socially and economically.

Those overseeing the program know there is a cloud of concern following some of the ex-offenders. But they also know it’s a new day with new possibilities to show those once behind bars The importance of not only getting out but staying out as well.

A community collaboration helps those who once broke the law, become law-abiding. For now, the program is virtual.