Suffolk non-profit receives a surprise grant ahead of the holidays [Video]

NORFOLK, Va. — WINKS (With INtentional Kindness and Support) is an organization creating access to resources and assistance for people battling brain tumors.

Their mission is one built on personal experience as WINKS founder Samaria ‘Sam’ Hunter is a brain tumor survivor herself.

For the retired naval officer and mother, it’s been almost a decade since she was diagnosed with a meningioma, or brain tumor, on her right frontal lobe.

Hunter said, “I always tell people my journey was perfectly orchestrated by God, and I am very faithful.”

Just 6 weeks after her first surgery, Hunter says she heard a calling to create a space for people who receive similar diagnoses.

That’s when she founded the non-profit WINKS, using her faith as inspiration.

Hunter adds, “He [God] …