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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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 Carrboro Senior Living Center

by | Jun 8, 2015 | Carrboro Senior Living, carrboro senior living share, elderly

Carrboro Senior Living Center, Carrboro, NC

The NC76 WorldLegacy Leadership Team renovated and refurbished ten rooms by painting, adding new air conditioning units and installing new carpet and artwork. August 2005. On August 29, 2005 there was a a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for the completion of this amazing project at the Carrboro Senior Living Center. After only a few weeks of planning, in one weekend NC76 improved the quality of life for current residents and welcomed additional residents into the facility.

Our vision was to provide the residents of the Center with the comforts of living in a clean, loving and home-like environment. What was amazing twas that in one weekend, we renovated an entire wing of the facility. Ten rooms of the facility were completely refurbished and updated with new carpet, paint, air conditioning units and artwork. In a weekend we created an extreme makeover and were joined with a group of extreme givers.

We enrolled businesses in donating supplies necessary in making the environment warm and welcoming. Many Assisted Living facilities are on a fixed-income budget leaving little room for building improvements. The residents can often feel segregated from the community due to age-related changes and specific disabilities.

I would like to share what we (NC76) created in the domain of the elderly during our service project. The project involved renovating one wing of an assisted living center. We had no idea how it was going to happen or look but if there is one thing that NC76 learned through our experiences during LP, it was that it is better to leap towards the goal than to plan every move and contingency.

The project spanned several states – ten brand new state -of-the- art air conditioners, donated from Wisconsin, a roll of new carpet from Georgia, and paint from North Carolina. In addition, consultant construction services, professional painters, food donation, and volunteer time were all essential to he services of the project.

Not only did we prevail in what many of us saw was a very daunting and overwhelming project during the first few hours of work, we created a space of love and respect
from squalor and depression for our senior citizens. The gratitude, disbelief, and interest in what we were doing from he residents were priceless.

Not only will our elders have a home where there is nowhere else o go, they are also able to personalize their rooms, including keeping their beloved pets. It is no he material touches so much as the personal touches that are important in life.
The name of he game was team, enrollment, and fun!
Love,
Diana, NC76
Making Love Happen

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WorldLegacy Builds ESL Lab

by | Feb 20, 2015 | Article, Children, ESL, ESLartcle

Estes Elementary School, Asheville,NC

NC71’s Leadership project upfitted an English as a second language mobile unit with computers, a TV, a VCR and software. February 2005.

Community gets involved to help ESL project at Estes

February 17, 2005
By Erin Cox STAFF WRITER

ASHEVILLE — A few computers, a little floor wax and the kindness of strangers are helping the English as a Second-language program at Estes Elementary School. About 13 percent of the school’s 900 students don’t speak English fluently. They come from about 20 different countries, but most are native Spanish speakers from Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, said Estes Principal Martin Mann. To help them learn English faster, the school recently began a project that involved people in the community, not just teachers at the school.
The project started with 16 people and three months of adult education training at WorldLegacy, a leadership training company just outside Raleigh. The program required teams to develop and complete a community service workshop.

Anne Belle Peevey, an instructor at Montessori Learning Center who participated in the program, knew that Estes Elementary needed more ESL supplies, and she began a campaign to acquire equipment.

“The ESL program was heavily underfunded, and the students at Estes needed new technology,” Peevey said.

WorldLegacy Team members sought donations from churches and community organizations and got five refurbished computers with monitors, two printers and a new television and videocassette recorder to help get ESL students into regular classes faster.

They raised more than $2,000 in private donations to buy additional ESL software, headphones and classroom supplies. The team washed and waxed the floor of the ESL trailer and rearranged the classroom’s furniture to make room for the new equipment.

“It’s an incredible experience to see what can happen when a group of 16 people comes together and produce an amazing project to create an elevated level of learning for these children,” Peevey said. This was an extreme makeover project.

Estes takes an integrated-intensive approach to educating ESL students, said Principal Mann. And it usually doesn’t take long for ESL students to pick up English.

“The majority of their time is spent in the regular classrooms,” Mann said.”The best way for them to learn English is to be around their peers.”

Students usually learn “playground” English, or social language skills, in about a year, said ESL teacher Susan Tackett.

But it may take up to 10 years for students to develop a broad and highly developed English vocabulary, Tackett said.

So the technological resources provided by the WorldLegacy team will definitely help accelerate their English skills, she said. Students particularly like using the interactive software and headphones. They can hear an English word, repeat it into the headphones and hear their own voice in English, giving them instant feedback.

“The WorldLegacy group did a spectacular job and did it in a short amount of time,” Tackett said. “They were very focused on their goal. Our resources are so minimal that sometimes we have to get creative and invent them. We would have never gotten the computers and software if the WorldLegacy group hadn’t helped us.”

Reprinted with Permission Asheville Citizen-Times, Asheville, North Carolina

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WorldLegacy – Wake Interfaith Hospitality

by | Jan 30, 2015 | Press Release, Wake Interfaith, Youth

Wake Interfaith Hospitality Network, Raleigh, NC

The NC43 WorldLegacy Project included major renovation of a teen room, guest office, lobby, and day room. These renovations allowed homeless families to be empowered during their stay. January 2001. A second project by NC78 retrofitted an aging playground and completely refurbished a nursery and a playroom. November 2005.

Places to Play: A Celebration of New Play Areas for Local Homeless Children

Raleigh, NC — On Monday, November 21st at 9am, a ribbon cutting ceremony will be held to celebrate the successful renovation of three play areas for children at the Wake Interfaith Hospitality (WIHN) day center. Thanks to volunteer efforts, children of homeless families will have fun, safe, and supportive environments to grow in while their families make a sustainable transition to independent living.
Two weekends ago, a team of community members, WIHN families and staff, and a team from the WorldLegacy’s Leadership Program collaborated to retrofit an aging playground, refurbish a nursery and playroom, and raise funds to support project costs and purchase new furniture for the WIHN center.
“WIHN is a vital member of our community,” according to Peggy Mattingly, one of the project organizers. “To support their efforts, and make a difference for the children who use the center, is an honor and a privilege.”
The WorldLegacy project work, including removing sand, laying mulch, repairing fences, adding new
landscaping, installing new carpet, painting walls, raising money, and much more was completed in two full days of work with only two weeks of planning. The project was capped by adding painted hand prints of children at the center along the walls of the playroom. This was indeed an extreme makeover.
The ribbon cutting ceremony will mark the completion of the project, and will be held at 903 Method Rd, Raleigh, NC 27606. Volunteers and WIHN staff will be available for comments and interviews immediately following.
Where: 903 Method Rd, Raleigh, NC 27606
Driving directions: Western Blvd to Method Rd, WIHN is on the right on the corner of Method Rd and Jackson immediately past the Food Lion.
When: Media should arrive by 8:45 a.m. Monday, Nov 21, to be in place in time for a 9:00 a.m. start.
Parking: All media vehicles can park on Method Rd.
About Wake Interfaith Hospitality Network
Wake Interfaith Hospitality Network, Inc. (WIHN) is a private, nonprofit organization
designed to help alleviate the crisis of homelessness. WIHN helps homeless families achieve independent living by providing shelter, meals, case management, and educational services and promotes awareness of homelessness.
About The WorldLegacy
The WorldLegacy, a Morrisville based coaching company with a vision, whose mission is to empower people to live their dreams and-in doing so- create extraordinary communities and organizations around them. For more information about the WorldLegacy, please call 919-678-6000.