WorldLegacy Extreme Makeover Camp Royall

by | Aug 1, 2015 | Article, Camp Royall, Health

Camp Royall Extreme Makeover

Camp Royall, a summer camp for individuals with autism, received an extreme makeover by WorldLegacy’s NC 148 leadership team. In only two days, the facility received an upgraded staff lounge, upgraded cabins and a spa appreciation day for the caregivers.

Envision a world in which every human being expresses his or her unique purpose and feels love and appreciation (PRWEB) June 07, 2014
Camp Royall, a camp for individuals with autism, is receiving a powerful transformation of their staff lounge and cabins, as well as a spa appreciation day for their staff. Members of the NC 148 Leadership Team from the WorldLegacy in Chapel Hill, NC are creating an extreme makeover of Camp Royall in only two days. NC 148 envisions a world that is abundant, connected and works for everyone.

This extreme makeover project is the culmination of WorldLegacy’s three-month leadership development program. This project will provide caregivers with a relaxing, upgraded staff lounge area and cabins, where staff members will recapture their energy and inspiration and get much-needed rest. The space will be repainted with an original mural by a professional artist, and will be upgraded with new kitchen appliances, furniture, and storage spaces. The staff members will be provided with a relaxing spa appreciation day that will include manicures, pedicures, massages, and makeovers. Professional photos will be taken of caregivers and campers and then hung in the dining room for daily inspiration.

The NC 148 team chose a project in the domain of caregiving. They believe caregivers are the ones who give love and unconditional support to every human being they touch, and they are also the ones who are in urgent need of care and appreciation themselves. The team selected Camp Royall because it is the largest and the oldest summer camp for children and adults with autism in the United States. Hundreds of children and adults have it as the only place to go to learn how to live with autism and feel loved and connected. They deserve a strong team of inspired, loving, and well-rested caregivers!

In 1997, the Autism Society of North Carolina opened Camp Royall, a 133-acre facility located in Moncure, NC that is near Pittsboro.

The NC 148 Leadership Team envisions this project to be a powerful inspiration and support to caregivers at Camp Royall. Join this makeover project to witness the magic of giving happening that weekend. The completion of the project and ribbon cutting ceremony will be held on Sunday, June 22 at 1 pm.

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Building a State of the Art Hospital in Botswana

by | Jul 19, 2015 | Health, Midwifery in Botswana, SLPprojects, world | 1 comment

Building a State of the Art Hospital in Botswana

Jane Arnold Botswana WorldLegacy

Building a State of the Art Hospital in Botswana

Two Extreme Givers that are WorldLegacy North Carolina Leadership Graduates: Jane Arnold, CNM and Julie Sweedler. They left cushy UNC to create a state-of-the-art hospital in a country where there is nothing like it. Jane is a Nurse Midwife and Julie is a health educator.

Jane Arnold went through WorldLegacy’s Basic, Advanced and NC90 Leadership Program. Her leadership team did an Extreme Makeover project at the Heritage of Raleigh, Raleigh, NC for elderly citizens.Jane Arnold was a member of the LP PHD program PhD8 and was a coach for WorldLegacy. Her PHD transformational experiential workshop was on midwifery.

Julie Sweedler also went through WorldLegacy’s Basic, Advanced and NC94 Leadership Program. Her team’s project was also for the elderly. Her team had an extreme makeover of an outdoor area at the Durham Center for Senior Life.

Now they are off to do an amazing Extreme Giving and Extreme Makeover in Botswana.
Julie Said: “We attended and Orientation with all the medical and administrative staff who are currently hired and here – about 1.40 people. The docs alone are represented by 20 different countries. We’re quite the little UN – all here to start what everyone agrees is a very ambitious, state-of-the-art hospital in a country and region that has seen nothing like what we’re creating. I’m very inspired by what we are attempting to do: provide an extremely advanced and exceptional set of medical services that don’t exist in the country and do it in the highest-tech environment possible. Some of the high-tech initiatives are: paperless record keeping, virtual consulting with an international medical advisory board, and being a test site for an electronic bedside quality assurance monitoring system.”

Battered Women’s Shelter

by | Jul 10, 2015 | betteredshare, Family, Health, Women's Counseling Center | 2 comments

Woman’s Rehabilitation and Counseling Center

In January of 2009, WorldLegacy’s NC106 Leadership team chose the Woman’s Rehabilitation and Counseling Center in Florida for their project. This facility provides a home for up to a year for woman and children who are transitioning in life. This amazing WorldLegacy Leadership project included renovating the front lobby including putting in new flooring, painting, rearranging the main desk to face the front door, replaced old furniture with new, and added motion detector, lights and a bright front porch light. A beautiful recreation room was created from what once was a storage room. The room was deep cleaned and painted, brand new furniture was brought in, and the big screen TV and DVD were hooked up. A kid’s corner was created complete with TV, DVD, an over 30 DVD library of Disney movies, games, kid’s furniture, and custom hand painted murals on the walls. The overgrown garden was cleaned up and replanted. The non-working bathrooms were repaired and are now functional. An open and cheerful space was created where the woman and children can enjoy time together or with visitors. To top it all off, two new desks and computers were installed in the library, complete with Office Suite software and internet connection. These computers give the kids the ability to complete school assignments and the moms the ability to search and apply for jobs and practice office skills. Budget $35,000.

Battered Women’s Shelter Testimonial

I am Gerald Parker and I am the NC 106BE Extraordinary leadership team. WE, the extraordinary NC106 Leaders created an awesome WorldLegacy Leadership project in Orlando, Florida at a Battered Women’s Shelter. We honored these women by refurbishing an old room that wasn’t being used into an all-in-one entertainment room fully furnished with Couches, a big screen TV with a DVD player stocked with Children’s and Family Videos. Also, we supplied toys and games for the children to use in this room as well. We had an artist come and paint create a mural on the walls of this room as well. Also, these women did not have an easy avenue for applying for jobs and letting their children to their school work so we created a small Computer Lab for them to use with donated computers and networking equipment. The resident’s were elated to be able to use these computers. We installed new flooring in the lobby as well as installed flood lighting outside to provide safety. All of these things were done in 48 Hours! If that kind of giving can happen in 48 hours, what about a week? A month? A year? Be a giver in the world and miracles will be created. I know the residents of that shelter are thankful for our that.

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WorldLegacy Journey and Bill Gates

by | Jul 10, 2015 | Health, world | 2 comments

WorldLegacy Journey and Gates Foundation Grant

“Don’t waste your time! They’ll never fund a small project like yours.” Every time I mentioned going after a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant I heard that and if I hadn’t done the WorldLegacy training, I would have listened to this advice and given up. Instead, I used the courage, confidence and skills I found there to win a first-time $990,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for the global polio eradication project I directed. With that additional money, we were able to add hundreds of thousand of children to our project and keep them safe from a crippling disease that still threatens children in the developing world with paralysis every year. And now the project staff and associates see that anything is possible! This was an extreme risk and will be an extreme giving project.
I am grateful to what I gained through the Leadership Journey.
Ellen Coates

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WorldLegacy Graduates Largest Kidney Swap

by | Jun 24, 2015 | Health

WorldLegacy Graduates Create Largest Kidney Swap

My WorldLegacy Experience

Jim G. Charlotte, NC

I graduated WorldLegacy NC86 in the fall of 2006. I was a personal trainer and fitness instructor at that time. One of my clients had introduced me to the work being completed at the WorldLegacy and invited me to
attend. Being in the health and fitness industry I have been to many professional conventions and other training opportunities before. I decided to go because this was one of my biggest clients, and the
fact that he was so sincere, told this me was something different. I showed up vowing to do it on my terms. What I found at WorldLegacy was an amazing group of individuals really committed to creating positive change, transformation, and helping others find their voice. This was getting real about what is really happening in my life today. I knew I had to do it.

Eighteen months later…..

I have formed my own corporation, secured my first contract for providing corporate wellness and health promotion solutions. Begun to assemble a team of health professionals to provide the very best in wellness coaching and health promotion programming. Developed several websites for our businesses.

I rode three Century (100 mile plus) bike rides for charity in 2007. I was elected president of the CUMC chapter of the United Methodist Men’s National Association. I helped lead a mission team to Mississippi to complete Katrina disaster relief, for the last 5 years.

The experience I had in the personal leadership work I completed at WorldLegacy created a profound change in my outlook on my life. At the time I had no idea how big that was going to be. I had talent
before, what I received was this crystal clear vision of what I wanted and an understanding that the only thing keeping me from it was me. Take the risk to explore all the possibilities that await, if
you dare to look. Find your voice and be heard, make a difference.

John Foley, NC100 Leadership Graduate and Kaaren Johanson, NC61 Leadership Graduate were part of the first 16-person kidney donation chain last month at Johns Hopkins Hospital and who are now promoting kidney donations.


Bad Kidneys Make Good Pals,The News and Observer (Raleigh-Durham, N.C.) June 21, 2009  BY SARAH AVERY.

When they’re near each other, best friends John Foley and Kaaren Johanson inevitably clasp hands.  As if guided by force, they have an instinctive connection. So when Foley decided last year that he should donate a kidney to Johanson, whose organs have been ravaged by diabetes and previous transplants, he was undeterred by the small matter that he and she were no match.  Now, the two Triangle are poised to give and receive just as they had hoped, but their tight circle has been expanded.  He will be donating his kidney to a patient in Oklahoma City and she will receive an organ from someone in Detroit as part of an intricate donation chain that will involve 12 people….
Dominoes Align for Key Kidney Transplant

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A Mission in Arequipa, Peru

by | Jun 22, 2015 | Health, Peru, SLPprojects, world

A Mission To Peru

I recently returned from a trip to Arequipa, Peru with my church. It was a mission focused on being with the people and then going where wanted and needed. The people there are poorer than we could ever imagine – as in not having food for TODAY. Living in cinder block 8′ x 8′ huts with corrugated metal roofs, no insulation, no running water, no heat, maybe electricity in the form of one light bulb run off of an extension cord. Health wise, with no running hot water, they bathe infrequently in cold water, dental care is non-existent, medical care is scarce. Domestic violence is common. Men will go out looking for work 6 days per week and find 3 days of either fieldwork or construction work if they are lucky. But the abundance of their spirit is profoundly moving – the warmth, openness, generosity, humbleness.

I came realizing how very fortunate I am and we all are.
When I was there, I lamented that, as a lawyer, I had no “useful” skill like medicine, etc. But I soon realized that I could make a difference in other ways. I sat in on a round-table meeting of the lady workers at my friend’s card factory and one young girl spoke about how her father would not pay his child support arrears. Not surprisingly, the father did not want her working at the card factory as it is a place where women are being empowered financially and emotionally. From that, I accompanied her down to the volunteer lawyer’s office to start the process of bringing her father into court. She was scared, but when I asked her what it was going to be like when she was making more money than her abusive father, she lit up!

Bettye and I decided to sponsor 10 handicapped children, so I enrolled one taxi driver, 2 social workers and a translator to take me on home visits to each of the 10 so I could meet them. For $20 per month, I can have one lunch out or they can be fed, schooled and receive medical care.

We also decided to buy a new wheelchair for one of the workers who had Muscular Dystrophy (Charcot) just like Bettye. She had been using standard skinny tires – getting pushed half mile each way on loose dirt road from home to work and back. SO we got her a chair up-fitted with “sand tires” so now she can glide over the dust. While at the medical supply store, I enrolled the owner in throwing in a walker for her similarly disabled brother.

My church people said that they had never gotten so much done in a week.
What I also shifted for myself is that I put aside my conversation about “keep them at arm’s length, I don’t want to get sick” and embraced these wonderful people – physically and emotionally. I hugged and hugged, and never got sick. Instead, I made a difference for these people.

This trip was about transformation where the rubber meets the road – meet people who are in deep crisis and turn it around for them with employment, support, action and just whatever it takes.

Chris, Attorney NC

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