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

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.”

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WorldLegacy Graduate Stands for Rwandan Children

by | Jul 16, 2015 | Children, Rwanda, SLPprojects, world | 3 comments

Legacy Graduate Stands for Rwandan Children

WorldLegacy graduate Sarah Hipp is the Director of International Programs at Mizero Children of Rwanda Asheville, North Carolina Area. Sarah did the entire WorldLegacy Journey culminating in the NC111. In 2007 Sarah was a volunteer with the Mizero Children’s mission. The goal of the mission is to raise money for the children in the group and other orphans to build a combined school and orphanage in Rwanda. “There is a huge need for it. Some of them are homeless, others live with relatives,” Hipp said of the group. “Some of their parents died of HIV/AIDS, which is closely linked because so many women were raped during the genocide and contracted AIDS.” The painful facts of the nation’s 1994 genocide dimmed when the Mizero Children leapt onto the stage, singing of hope and peace and reconciliation. The girls danced with coiled baskets balanced on their heads, and the boys danced with bell-anklets that rang with each stomp. The children wore headbands, fringe and translucent wrap skirts. The performers were between the ages of 12 and 16, Hipp said.

WorldLegacy Graduate in Rwanda

WorldLegacy graduate Sarah Hipp, a graduate of WorldLegacy’s NC111 Leadership program, has been standing for the people of Rwanda. She came to WorldLegacy with a vision. She has created herself to be effective in following her vision and taking actions consistent with her vision.

In this set of photos, Sarah has gone to meet Denis, the drum maker of Rwanda. Denis is one of the best drum makers in Rwanda and comes from a long line of drum makers for the King of Rwanda. His great-grand father, grandfather and his father all made drums for the King! Now Denis makes drums for the National Dance Troupe that performs for the President!

“Over the last year I have made several trips out to his village in the South to learn about the drums and about his family! I have learned much but most importantly I have learned about the Umuvumu trees! They are the best trees for drums because they are the hardest wood however there are not very many left in Rwanda!

I asked Denis if we could plant some for his grand sons! He said yes! So we planted six trees on his land and I took four more to plant on a friend’s land! All you do is cut of a branch and make a point and put it in the ground! It is an amazing tree with should beauty! It is known for peace and protection and the tradition is that one tree is planted for each family member on their land.”

WorldLegacy Graduate Brings Cultural Center to Rwanda

I am the Rwandan Operations Manager for the Intore Music and Cultural Center in Kigali, Rwanda. This program was started in Dec. 2006 with a team of 4 people (including me) from LEAF International. The goal was to start a music program with a group of orphan children from the Genocide, to bring hope and healing by giving them an outlet of expression. Through a Rwandan Mentor we were able to teach the 20 boys the traditional music, drumming and dance of Rwanda. These boys have been living on the street in a dirt parking lot for 10-15 years! They have experienced much trauma and rejection from their community, family and friends. Last year after one of the boys was shot on the street. We were able to secure housing for the boys through a generous family in the US. We realized at that point that more was needed for these boys to help them become leaders in their community and to help them see hope and possibility in their lives. As a result LEAF International partnered with Playing For Change to be able to create a community center for the Arts in Rwanda. This Intore Music and Cultural Center will be the first of it’s kind in Rwanda. Currently there are no galleries for Art, performance halls, or cultural centers in Rwanda. The creation of this center will allow Rwandans to have a place to express themselves through music and art while also being a place for everyone to learn about Rwanda’s diverse Art culture! At the same time it will create possibility and suitability for the 20 boys we have been working with over the last 4 years. I have been on the ground in Rwanda for about a month now for the scouting trip to find potential partners and land and/or buildings for the center to come to life. In just the few short weeks that I have been here I have had mayors offer land for the project, met with many partners and had the opportunity to film a documentary of the project! Also through our partner with Playing For Change we had the privilege of teaching the boys the lyrics to John Lennon’s song Imagine, (which PFC bought the rights to) and have it recorded! At the same time that these amazing things have been happening, Rwanda has also gone through an election and I was very close to a grenade attack that killed 8 people. It has been amazing to boldly walk the streets in a land where I don’t speak the native language and know that 100% is possible 100% of the time. I have full confidence that this center will be more than I could ever image! I am Sarah Hipp NC111 Legacy Leadership Graduate, I completed the coaching and personal effectiveness curriculum at WorldLegacy in Morrisville, NC. I am an extreme giver We are sitting in the spot where Jean Paul one of the boys was shot and killed by the police last year. It was powerful to hear the story told while sitting on the hard, dusty ground where the boys lived for so long.

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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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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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WorldLegacy Extreme Giver Kay Reibold

by | Jun 18, 2015 | SLPprojects, world | 5 comments

WorldLegacy Extreme Giver Kay Reibold

WorldLegacy Leadership Graduate Kay Reibold is indeed an extreme giver. She has worked on behalf of the Montagnard indigenous people of Vietnam’s Central Highlands for over 20 years, including 17 trips to Vietnam during the time she was the Director of the Vietnam Highlands Assistance Project for Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas from 1989-2003. She is the Project Development Specialist for the Montagnard Human Rights Organization, based in Raleigh, North Carolina,

She has been a refugee advocate with unrelenting love and commitment. She has received three national awards for her contribution to refugee advocacy and human rights. Her earlier career as a writer and producer involved extensive research in China, Japan, the U.S., and Vietnam, including public television documentaries shot on-location in these countries. Two programs depicting the Montagnard people of Vietnam’s Central Highlands, Remembering the King of Fire and Living in Exile, were broadcast on PBS.

Kay remarked that when she visited she saw the people living in poverty. Even with poverty, the Montagnards still offered what little they had each time she visited the tribal people of Vietnam’s central highlands.”They have so much compassion and love and genuine friendliness for me,” she said. “They had very few chickens, and so to have a pig sacrificed or a chicken sacrificed in my honor was such an example of friendship and hospitality.”

In November 2001, Kay Reibold was a member of NC48 WorldLegacy Leadership Program in NC and afterward went on to do the WorldLegacy LP PhD program. She was also a senior coach for a WorldLegacy Leadership program. She had many trainers and coaches at WorldLegacy which were grateful to be able to coach such a powerful woman with a vision.
In 2005, Kay received the 2005 Unsung Heroines Award from Sen. Elizabeth Dole, who nominated her. In 2006 she testified at a U.S. Congressional Hearing on Vietnam. Kay Reibold is a WorldLegacy Extreme Giver.

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WorldLegacy Graduates in Sudan

by | Feb 12, 2015 | Health, SLPprojects, Sudan Health Project, world

WorldLegacy Graduate, Ellen Coates, creates a health project in Sudan

100% is possible 100% of the time. I’m in S. Sudan today because two years ago, one week after completing my WorldLegacy Trainings and beginning Leadership Practice at the WorldLegacy, I decided to do something about the fact that very few children here have access to basic health services, so one in four of them die before reaching their fifth birthday. Using the skills I had acquired, and the determination, self-confidence, and willingness to risk that I had acquired at WorldLegacy, I got some of my public health colleagues in different non-government organizations in the US interested in participating in the project. It took almost two years, but eventually I secured $5 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and in the meantime, two of my colleagues, one from Atlanta and one from Ethiopia, also completed training at Legacy. Together we are now in Juba, S. Sudan to help start the project which, over the next three years, will strengthen polio eradication and child immunization activities and build local capacity to improve children’s health over the long term.

We arrived in Juba five days ago and have been using our training to overcome a variety of obstacles and roadblocks, build supportive and visionary relationships, and enroll others into thinking out of their boxes and making 100% possible. In addition, we’ve actually increased the scope and reach of the project so it will reach thousands more children, and we’re talking about what we’re going to do next to get the resources to expand the project even more.

When we arrived in Juba, the town was all but empty of children — something I’ve never seen in 15 years of working in developing countries. It turns out many parents had sent their children away to protect them from the threat of violence during the referendum vote. Now, while they are looking toward building a new independent nation, we are creating an opportunity to help make sure those kids grow up to enjoy the freedom their parents and grandparents fought and died to win. There’s still a lot of work to do, and a few more challenges to overcome, but I know for certain that we’ll succeed. Because of this project, this year 250,000 or more children under age 5 who have not had adequate access to immunization and other basic health services will be protected from life-threatening diseases, and that number will grow every year from now on. We dream of a world where polio has been eradicated, and where children grow up healthy and can realistically look forward to having the lives they dream of having. This week we’re getting to take another big step toward making that dream a reality!

Ellen Coates
WorldLegacy Leadership graduate
NC105 WorldLegacy Leadership, and she coached NC112 and NC131 WorldLegacy Leadership

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