CHICAGO — It’s not often a child’s thought becomes a young man’s mission, but on Saturday in Bronzeville, Jahkil Jackson had another big day.
When Jackson was eight years old, he came up with the idea to give out essentials to those experiencing homelessness, calling the essentials given out “Blessing Bags.”
“I say that I’ve been working at this pretty much half my life,” said Jackson, now 16 years of age. “In the blessing bags are toiletry items like soap, socks, hand sanitizer, conditioner, lotion … Just the daily essentials that we can sometimes take for granted that they don’t even have…
