Dwayna has a 501c3 that helps underprivileged kids, and she began an outreach to kids in the projects of East Nashville after meeting Detonio, when he was only five years old. After just one day there of outreach, she began the Character Counts Club with her nonprofit org., Lighting the Way Worldwide .
She took him and his brother to the library to teach them to read and gave them 5.00 each afterwards for reading, began a coat drive to get him and his brother (and 100 other kids) a coat for the winter (working with Walmart and Target) and now Detonio is almost a teen!
Ongoing updates with more details are on the Facebook “Lighting the Way Worldwide” page, but Dwayna saw him yesterday for the first time in years and took him and his mother out for a special day, and what a pleasure to stay in touch!
Dwayna hopes to help provide for his college as he gets older through her nonprofit organization.
Dwayna wrote a song for Detonio called “You’re Growin’ On Me,” which will be on her forthcoming “Gibson” release.
