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Get to know Son of a Saint's Founder CEO Bivian “Sonny” Lee III, and listen as he shares an inspiring recap of his life’s journey and professional milestones. Discover how his personal experiences fueled his passion for mentorship and community service, leading to the impactful creation of Son of a Saint. Watch now to learn more about this story of dedication, resilience, and transformative leadership.

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My name is Sunny Lee, founder of Son of a St. and this is my story rubbing New Orleans East, actually around Joe Brown Park. I grew up with single mom, My father was a quarterback for the New Orleans Saints #11 Vivian Lee grabbed off, but unfortunately my father passed when I was three years old. You know, boy looks for the adult male that's gonna give him the advice that he needs. And so that's what I did not have. And I remember not being able to go home and just ask dad. That's when I sort of realizing that this, you know, this absence of my father is really something that's going to impact my life. But with the help of my mom and my family, I made it through college. I wanted to working with the Saints, who work for the owner's time and GAIL Benson as their chief aide. That was everything you could think of, work for the Saints. It was a connection to my father. And it was a few years after I left the Saints. That umm everything changed. I was 29 and this was like December of 2010. It was after Saints game actually. I saw that there was a boy that had murdered another boy on nola. com. Did some research, both of them, they lost their fathers and I was like, I want to do something to help kids, you know, that were growing up without their fathers. Different situations, but I'm like, if we can get them on a preventative side, maybe we can deter them from the juvenile system, life of crime or losing their own lives, you know, and so. It started Son of Hussein, to support boys growing up without their fathers. Boys joined between age of 10 and 12 and they're with us until 21 years old. Most of their fathers have been lost to violence or long term incarceration. We have several hundred boys in growing. Our boys have a case team that supports him, a case manager, education coordinator, mental health specialist, rec coordinator and a mentor. So when we started, we started with 100 bucks to support fathers. Boys in New Orleans now budgets over $5,000,000. It is absolutely working. I'm happy to say that the majority of our boys have not touched the judicial system at all. And I would say the more we grow, the better results we're going to get for our community. My dad was a was a community guy. He was a giver. I think could be extremely proud just like my mom is.

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