The Bright Side

Atlanta’s Homeless Community Feared Covid-19. Then This Man Had an Idea.

In the third episode of “The Bright Side,” we meet Terence Lester. At 16, Terence lived on the street in Atlanta, and in his twenties, he founded Love Beyond Walls, a nonprofit to affirm the dignity of the unsheltered by giving them a voice and a community. “My experiences with homelessness resulted in my life’s calling,” he told me. When COVID-19 struck Atlanta, Terence says: “We kept hearing from our community members, ‘I’m supposed to wash my hands, but how am I supposed to wash my hands when everything is closed?’” Terence came up with a brilliant idea to help save lives. Watch above. His story inspired my friends at @Ally and me so much that we made a donation to help out his cause.