Jennifer Garner cemented her good Samaritan status over the weekend as she helped a man rent a scooter.
The Alias alum, 51, was at a park in Venice Beach, California that houses a large homeless encampment when she saw a man struggling with the rental app on his phone.
She was on a walk with a friend when she encountered the homeless man.
The Elektra actress – who was spotted shopping with her 18-year-old daughter Violet – wore jeans and a black sweater with a long, double-breasted navy blue coat.
Jennifer had her hair styled in a half-up / half-down style and wore a gold necklace and black boots.
Jennifer Garner cemented her good Samaritan status over the weekend as she helped a homeless man rent a scooter
The Family Switch star is most at home being a regular person and giving to her community in any way she can.
The quintessential girl next door hails from Charleston, West Virginia, a place she has called ‘as far from Hollywood as any place on Earth.
Growing up, she wanted to be a librarian who wrote children’s books. And today, she uses her star power to make sure children have access to stories with her #SAVEWITHSTORIES initiative.
She started the program in 2020 with Amy Adams, 49, during the school shutdowns caused by COVID-19 in partnership with Save the Children ad No Kid Hungry.
The actresses read stories on social media to fundraise for families that we having a hard time feeding their kids.
And she’s still trying to help kids and families in need, especially in Kentucky, where floods wiped out two elementary schools.
She surprised the students and teachers with a gift from Scholastic of more than 500 books for the students to take home, a promise to donate 5,000 book each to the school’s future rebuilt libraries and extra resources for the teachers.
Garner met some of the kids whose lives were upended by the floods – which killed 45 people – and also met the school librarian who walks around the makeshift school with a cart full of books.
The Alias alum, 51, was at a park in Venice Beach that houses a large homeless encampment when she saw a man struggling with the rental app on his phone
She was on a walk with a friend when she encountered the homeless man
‘Children’s libraries are some of the most important places in our country, but you know what, a push cart is better than nothing,’ Garner said during a segment on the Today Show in October.
‘A push cart with an amazing librarian like we met today, who’s prioritizing reading, who’s showing the kids that it matters enough that she will push around a cart to make sure they have some books.
She continued: ‘There’s a lot of trauma just in growing up below the poverty line, and if you can name it, then you can heal, you can be resilient and move on. And it’s amazing — it’s amazing to watch in action.’
‘They’re on their way back,’ Garner said, referring to the Kentucky school children.
