Google Helps Kids Send Videos To Dads In Prison For Father's Day
by The Daily Eye Team June 22 2016, 10:17 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 36 secs“When you come home, Dad, I want… ” Maya, 9, stops and puts her face in her hands, unable to continue. Maya, whose father is on a 25-year sentence in a California prison, was one of the many children who was able to send her incarcerated parent a video thanks to an effort led by Google called #LoveLetters.
Created with non-profit organizations Pops the Club and Place4Grace, the campaign helps children reach out to their fathers in prison as well as shine a light on the human toll of mass incarceration. Google partnered with criminal justice groups in a similar effort that helped children send video letters to their moms in prison for Mother's Day.