A retired Palm Beach County firefighter is changing the lives of South Florida children.
Dawn Donaldson retired from Palm Beach County Fire Rescue in 2008 because of a cardiac disability. Since then, she's opened JTK Bike Shop in Belle Glade, which has become a hub for her youth mentoring. "I saw some children that I knew in a parking lot with a monkey wrench trying to fix a bicycle," she remembered.
In 2017 she opened the faith-based organization. "The kids are learning the hard mechanical skills of bicycle repair," she said.
But Donaldson said the kids are also learning how to build character. "We work on integrity, which is doing the right thing when no one is looking we work on honesty and we work on generosity and kindness."