The Kind Mouse Productions, Inc.

was recently founded in 2012 after seeing the shocking CBS 60 Minutes Story “Hard Times Generation: Homeless Kids.” This is a heartbreaking story of children living in hotels, in cars, with grandparents, with neighbors due to their hardworking parents waking up one day to realize their comfortable careers have disappeared into thin air. The parents’ only “crime” was to believe that if they worked

hard, their families would be fine. Proud people reluctant and possibly too embarrassed to ask for assistance. They blew through their savings, lost their homes and are now living in motels month to month. With no escape due to lack of wages and unable to meet the required first and last month’s rent and utilities deposits to get a “real roof” over their families heads. Yes, they are “The Hotel Generation.”
Proud people who are depending on government assistance, family financial support and minimum wage jobs to care for their young families. Their children are eating on school vouchers. (Sadly for 15% in lower income areas, these are their only meals for the average 4 week food stamps allotment runs out in 3 weeks). CBS 60 Minutes taught us of “the best kept secret in town”, our neighbors may be hungry. Where did all the foreclosed people go to? Where do people turn when unemployment runs out? It also taught us that it could be us. Yes, us – Gina and Stan Wilkins. Gina, a commercial and residential architectural draftsman and Stan a television journalist and videographer. Granted Stan did work on the CBS shoot, so the awareness was a bit more acute, but still, Gina could not bear that her neighbors could be hungry. She kept on saying we must think locally not globally. We have to get food to those school children. We must get the hardworking parents out of the motels. We must assist these families in feeling whole again. We must…
With the turmoil in her heart, head and gut, Gina came to realize as 1 person she could only do so much. If Stan shot a 5 minute awareness video of 1 woman’s journey on how to assist these families, maybe, just maybe others would join the bandwagon. Maybe those receiving would eventually be able to assist too! With that a joining with the Pinellas County School Board's Pack-A-Snack Program was formed. A commitment to present the “awareness video”. A commitment to help raise funds. A voice…
Always thinking forward, Gina’s goal is to eventually get these “families in transition” out of motels and into year long transition group-like homes while helping them save up for their first and last month’s deposits. A nice safe and secure setting, where children can do their homework in peace and families can gather in the evenings to discuss the day’s events. A more “normal” than the chaos the families are now living in. Gina, being driven by a force stronger than herself knows this can be done. Not one to accept no, she knows if she keeps on pushing through one day she will see her dream. With the video talents of Stan and Gina’s architectural skills, Gina feels as if this dream will one day be a reality. No hardworking individual should ever feel despair due to economic hardships beyond their control. Everyone has a right to feel safe and secure in their own homes. And … No one should ever go hungry. Please, join The Kind Mouse Productions in this journey to help our proud hardworking friends who just one day lost everything.