Bill Text: TX HR1693 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Honoring Yohann Lopes, founder of Our Helping Hearts, for working to provide food and care items to his fellow Texans in need.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-28 - Reported enrolled [HR1693 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HR1693-Enrolled.html
H.R. No. 1693 |
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WHEREAS, Yohann Lopes, a fourth grader at Bledsoe Elementary | ||
in the Frisco Independent School District, has demonstrated | ||
extraordinary compassion for those in need through his work as the | ||
founder of Our Helping Hearts; and | ||
WHEREAS, Yohann started the nonprofit in 2017, when he was | ||
eight years old, after visiting a homeless shelter in India; when he | ||
remarked that there were no homeless or hungry people in Texas, his | ||
parents drove him to South Dallas after returning home, and he was | ||
shocked and saddened by the sight of people on the streets begging | ||
and searching for food; and | ||
WHEREAS, Determined to do something to help, Yohann invited | ||
his friends over to make sandwiches to deliver to homeless | ||
shelters, and he was ultimately able to enlist 30 people to make a | ||
total of 520 sandwiches; Our Helping Hearts has since grown | ||
tremendously, and in 2018, it donated more than 120,000 sandwiches, | ||
over 4,500 nonperishable food items, and more than 550 pairs of | ||
socks; today, Yohann is also involved in planning the | ||
organization's public and private events with schools, churches, | ||
corporate offices, and other community partners; and | ||
WHEREAS, Yohann continues to come up with new ideas for how to | ||
increase assistance to homeless and food-insecure residents; | ||
looking to the future, he has plans to set up a mobile food pantry | ||
and to begin soliciting donations of unused food from local | ||
restaurants; and | ||
WHEREAS, Through this outstanding endeavor, Yohann Lopes has | ||
proven himself to be a remarkably caring and resourceful young | ||
Texan, and he is a source of great pride and inspiration to his | ||
family and his community; now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 86th Texas | ||
Legislature hereby honor Yohann Lopes for working to provide food | ||
and care items to his fellow Texans in need and extend to him | ||
sincere best wishes for continued success with Our Helping Hearts; | ||
and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
prepared for Yohann as an expression of high regard by the Texas | ||
House of Representatives. | ||
Patterson | ||
______________________________ | ||
Speaker of the House | ||
I certify that H.R. No. 1693 was adopted by the House on May | ||
24, 2019, by a non-record vote. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||