Business owner donates T-shirts honoring Uvalde shooting victims

SAN ANTONIO — In the wake of tragedy, surviving local community users normally express emotions of helplessness or a wish to make a change in some smaller way. For San Antonio enterprise owner Joanna Garcia, paying out her respects at the escalating memorial web page exterior Robb Elementary School in Uvalde adhering to Tuesday’s mass shooting felt essential. 

“I have a 10-12 months-aged at property,” Garcia said. “To even imagine of what they went by way of, the fear, you know, the whole time, the types that did endure, that were laying there… it can be not for any one to go via, (even) a lot less a kid.”

Garcia, who helps make and sells T-shirts out of her home, stated she traveled to Uvalde with her mom. But right before they left, Garcia resolved to make personalized T-shirts with the faces of the victims that she and her mother would put on to the memorial as a way to honor their lives. 

Garcia’s mother decided to thrust her daughter to consider her motion a move more. 

“She said, ‘What if I invest in your shirts and you donate them?'” Garcia explained to KENS 5 reporter Henry Ramos. “I posted it on my Fb and buddies and relatives started out donating, so we ended up with like more than 150 shirts that we introduced to give away.” 

Garcia was down to her previous 20 T-shirts when she spoke with Ramos, but stated she also hopes to be capable to ship some shirts to the family members of the victims. 

“I just wanted to do anything and building shirts… is how I discovered the way to enable.”

Going: Memorial outdoors this Uvalde Working day Treatment Centre. Chairs for all the kids and the two teachers. It has their names. Men and women are leaving messages much too. #kens5 pic.twitter.com/XiswMMWOuI

— Henry RamosTV (@HenryRamosTV) May perhaps 29, 2022