In 2009, Annette Hughes took her in-home daycare business and expanded from her home to a facility located in Flint. This move came after she started her education journey working toward receiving a master’s degree in Early Childhood Education.

Sunny Patch Learning Center employs 10 individuals and serves 75 children in the Flint community. Hughes is also the author of five children’s books and is working on an e-book about how to start a childcare center. She says she could not do all of this without the support of her husband and daughter.