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Mavs Foundation Grant Recipient: Viola’s House in Dallas provides hope for teen mothers

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A toddler in a fluffy pink sweatshirt swirls as a newborn baby sleeps nearby on the living room couch. A stack of baby diapers outlines the wooden walls downstairs. Signs mark the bedroom doors with uplifting words like “love” and “faith.”

It’s a family atmosphere here because, after all, family is exactly what these new moms need right now.

“My story is that I was basically homeless, abused, and neglected,” an 18-year-old teen mother told us as she sat on her twin bed. She’s six months pregnant and will give birth to a daughter in April.