DAYTONA BEACH When Dawn Woolums was 13 and growing up in Kentucky, she was sold into a human trafficking ring. At 23, she was diagnosed with cancer. Years later she was hit by a car and wound up in a wheelchair for two years.
For the past five years she and her husband have lived on the streets of Daytona Beach or stayed in a Ridgewood Avenue motel when they could spare enough of their disability checks to pay the bill.
When the 53-year-old heard in January that a new homeless assistance agency had opened on North Street, she went there the first chance she got. But not to get help for herself. She went to help others.