ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A Rochester woman is carrying on her mother’s mission to help people experiencing homelessness through a charity that has been serving the community for 45 years.
Rebecca Mearns drives around with a team of volunteers visiting encampments and helping people through her charity Operation Caring Hearts.
Her mother started Operation Caring Hearts 45 years ago at a soup kitchen in Geneva, N.Y. But Mearns wasn’t always eager to do the work…