Warrick Dunn’s charity has furnished 252 homes and helped 687 people

For Warrick Dunn, becoming an NFL player was never only about football. In 1997, during his rookie season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, he turned a painful family memory into a mission that would last for decades. His mother, Betty Smothers, had dreamed of owning a home but died before she could see that dream come true. Nearly three decades later, Dunn's Homes for the Holidays programme has furnished 252 homes and helped 687 people move into them.Warrick Dunn turned his mother’s dream into a missionDunn was only 18 when his mother was killed in 1993. Smothers was a single mother raising six children while working as a police officer in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.