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DuPagePads, a Wheaton-based organization that helps homeless people, has received a $5 million grant from Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez Bezos through their Bezos Day 1 Families Fund.

To say the folks at DuPagePads are overwhelmed is putting it mildly.

“We’re so excited about what we’re going to be able to do,” DuPagePads President and CEO April Redzic said Friday.

“This incredible grant will allow us to create new programming, specifically for families, to help them get out of shelter and into an apartment of their own faster,” she said.

The grant will also “give additional educational support for our kids who are staying with us at our housing center, just to help them be connected to school and extra-curricular activities so they grow and

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