TPF Featured in
Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office Newsletter
TPF Founder and Executive Director Gabrielle Perry along with NBA Point Guard Jrue Holiday and Olympian Lauren Holiday were featured in the July newsletter for the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office. The three visited and toured the Orleans Parish Justice Center and delivered the 66,000th organic high quality menstrual product donation for TPF’s Girl Code Program. The feature is recreated below.
NBA’s Jrue Holiday, Thurman Perry Foundation Leader Visit OPJC to Support Women Residents
Today, Jrue Holiday, NBA point guard with the Milwaukee Bucks and former New Orleans Pelican, visited the Orleans Justice Center with Gabrielle Perry, founder of the Thurman Perry Foundation, to present donations of hygienic products to the women residents, tour the facility and observe some of the progress made under Sheriff Susan Hutson.
Through the Girl Code initiative, The Thurman Perry Foundation provides donations of organic, cotton, chlorine-free, dye-free, fragrance-free, and pesticide-free menstrual products monthly to the women housed inside of OJC.
Holiday and his wife, Lauren, contributed funds to make the 66,000th donation from the Girl Code initiative to the Orleans Justice Center.
“There’s a bridge most people don’t cross – those of us who live outside of jails don’t often interact with those who live inside,” said Holiday. “We need to cross those bridges more often and do what we can to help meet the needs of persons in custody.”
Perry said, “Sheriff Hutson is ushering in a new era for Orleans Parish and embraces progressive ideas of how persons who are incarcerated should be treated. The Sheriff’s vision directly aligns with our mission at the Thurman Perry Foundation.”
Former New Orleans Pelican Jrue Holiday (back center) poses with staff and Gabrielle A. Perry MPH (in all black) who heads a foundation that donates hygiene products to OJC’s women residents.
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Founded in memory of late U.S. Army Master Sergeant Thurman Perry Jr., The Thurman Perry foundation was created by his daughter, Gabrielle Perry, MPH, to support women and girls impacted by incarceration. We are a 501c(3) nonprofit organization. EIN 86-2519876.
