A face worth stopping for.

In the shelter’s words · excerpt

Meet Joanie Joanie spent her first four weeks of life in hiding with her mother and siblings in the bedroom of a teenage boy that was determined to keep her safe. Unfortunately after being discovered by his grandmother, she and the rest of her family found themselves homeless on a two lane highway right as summer was beginning. Joanie bravely came out of hiding to a strange human, alerting her to the family’s plight.