When Trailblazer Elementary School no longer had enough teachers to walk students to school, a Charlottesville nonprofit stepped in

In early October, Tamesha Foster moved her family from Lynchburg, Virginia to Charlottesville’s 10th & Page neighborhood. Her new home is in the Westhaven public housing community, and less than a mile from Trailblazer Elementary School. But Foster was surprised to learn that a school bus would not take her 8-year-old daughter to school. And, because Foster also has a 1-year-old daughter, she was uncertain how to get her baby to daycare while also getting her older child to school by 8 a.m.

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