TUPELO â¢Wear It Well founder Katina Holland, 48, has a strong background of giving back.
Though the organization she created has only been around since 2017, the idea for it started over a decade ago. Holland was a longtime volunteer with Camp Bluebird, a camp for adult cancer patients and survivors co-sponsored by North Mississippi Medical Center and the AT&T Pioneers.
That experience, she said, sparked her initial idea of giving makeovers to cancer patients.
âFast forward a few years, and then I started experiencing a lot of life-altering events, one after the other,â Holland said.
The first of those life-altering events was the passing of her grandmother, Leona Givhan Davis, in 2013. Davis raised Holland to help others, and her death put Holland in a dark place emotionally.
One young girl volunteers her time helping those in need at local giveaways.
Posted: Feb 5, 2021 9:05 PM
Posted By: Alexis Jones
TUPELO, Miss. (WTVA) - When 11-year-old, Aliyah Sims isn’t at school, she’s packing and giving away food, clothes, and other necessities.
Sims said since she can remember, her grandmother has taken her to local organizations to volunteer. After Sims saw classmates and people she knows struggling during the pandemic, she wanted to help even more. It means so much to me to see people get smiles on their faces that doesn’t have what I have,” she said,