SUFFOLK, Va. — Jennifer Bolding drives across Hampton Roads with a simple mission: find people who need help and provide it. As the founder of "Cruisin to Help the Homeless," she serves people experiencing homelessness, coming out of incarceration, or recovering from substance use.

"I drive all over Hampton Roads looking for people outside to help," Bolding said.

Her approach is direct and personal. She fills her car with essentials like food, clothes, toiletries, blankets and tents, anything someone living outside can use.

Bolding's mission began a decade ago while working as a truck driver. She kept encountering people who simply needed a hot meal.

"I had people come up to me to my truck window asking for food or money so I had a fridge and a microwave in the back of my truck I would

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