A Garden Blooms in Siler City

by | Apr 23, 2015 | Article, Coventry House, coventryhousearticle, elderly

Coventry House Assisted Living Center, Siler City, NC

NC82’s Leadership project created a beautiful handicap-accessible garden. April 2005.

A Garden Grows in Siler City

June 2006 By Amy Allen
On April 23, 2005 the residents of the Coventry House Assisted Living Center in Siler City, NC were the gracious recipients of a beautiful and abundantly donated handicap-accessible garden. It was created as an ongoing source of sustainable health for its residents, a place where they can be drawn outdoors to tend the garden, sit and repose, convene and connect together with family and friends, and as a source of inspiration for their community. The beautiful and glorious garden was developed entirely through the generous donations and volunteering of many individuals and small businesses, both local and national. The entire project was organized by a team of leaders from all over the east coast participating in the Leadership Program at the WorldLegacy in Raleigh, NC. The Leadership Program offers a deeply enriching experience that empowers an individual to create and transform the world and themselves within it. A community service project is one powerful component of this program, and is a manifestation of this team’s vision for the world, infinite love. The organizing group of thirteen compassionate leaders is committed to empowering the world through the infinite, inspiring nature of love. The garden symbolizes this vision as a source of health, beauty, and tranquility for the senior citizens of the Coventry House Assisted Living Center. It is a blossoming reminder of the infinite love this world can radiate quickly, effectively, and eternally in any circumstances.

The Legacy Leadership Team (NC82) would like to extend thanks and appreciation to some of the local businesses and individuals who donated materials and/or time to the creation of the garden:  Vestal’s Florist, Harvey Harman, Ronnie Williams, Dean Brooks, Silk Hope Nursery, Green Vision Landscaping, Oakmont Nursery, Baker Limestone, and Niche Gardens.  They also expressed fond appreciation to the Director, staff and residents of Coventry House Assisted Living Center, for providing a canvas for their creation.  As one leader on the team, James Gooch, expressed, “We will always cherish this experience and the love we have been able to share and create as a result of this project. It will be a source of growth and recollection for a time in our lives when we discovered that anything is truly possible.”

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Hispanic Family Center WorldLegacy

by | Apr 21, 2015 | Article, Family, Hispanic Center, Hispanicarticle

The Hispanic Family Center Ministries

The NC35 WorldLegacy Leadership project created a computer learning center with eight fully loaded computers, renovated a family gathering room, and created a space for preschoolers to play called the “dream room.” Budget: $24,000. January 2001.

To remove the digital divide

By Ned Glascock; STAFF WRITER
January 21, 2001
RALEIGH — Inside an unassuming brick building downtown, an experiment in spanning the digital divide is about to begin.
With the help of a team of volunteers and a bank of donated equipment, a new computer lab opens Monday at the Hispanic Family Center, offering after-school tutorials to Latino children. The idea is to give disadvantaged Hispanic families, whether immigrants or native-born U.S. citizens, access to the online world of information and opportunity. At the same time, organizers aim to support youngsters struggling to balance two cultures and two languages and inspire them not to fall behind in school or drop out.
“We realize there is a digital divide growing in the Hispanic population, and we’re trying to bridge that gap,” said Bill Herrera Beardall, a member of the Governor’s Advisory Council of Hispanic/Latino Affairs, who helped spearhead the effort.
“In this day’s world and economy, when everything seems to be driven by the computer or having access to the Internet – and just for getting a job – computer knowledge is critical,” said Beardall, assistant director of facility operations at N.C. State University. In Spanish, the free program is called Espiritu del Sol, or Spirit of the Sun, drawing on the notion of the sun’s shedding light upon the planet and its people. Its start coincides with a growing push to narrow the achievement gap reflected on standardized test scores between white and Asian students, on the one hand, and African-American, Hispanic and American Indian students.
Espiritu del Sol is a public-service project launched by a group of Triangle residents taking part in an adult-education and leadership program run by The WorldLegacy, a Chapel Hill company. After winning the blessing of the Hispanic Family Center’s director, WorldLegacy participants got the Environmental Protection Agency to donate eight computers and loaded them with educational software featuring courses in math, science and reading. Group members also helped renovate an old conference room in the Hispanic Family Center’s headquarters inside the Catholic Social Ministries building at 226 Hillsborough Street. And they fixed up a small space for preschoolers called the “Dream Room,” with bright rugs and walls painted with green fields, blue mountains and a bright sun on one side and the moon and stars on another. Consuelo Kwee, director of the Hispanic center, said the new after-school program will serve children in kindergarten through 12th grade who sign up through Wake County public schools and churches.
To Kwee, Espiritu del Sol is a blessing: “My dream has always been so big to help these people. This is like God’s gift to me.”
Reprinted with Permission of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina.

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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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Teach for America Las Vegas

by | Jan 22, 2015 | Uncategorized

Teach for America Las Vegas

Teach for America Las Vegas

“My vision and commitment dictate my ways of being and actions”
This LP principle has lived vividly for me in the 2 years since I was in the WorldLegacy leadership program. The trainings, workshops and especially LP have taught me that with unwavering belief and hardcore action, what I say GOES. I am a 2006 corps member of national service program Teach for America, which is a highly selective, rigorous organization dedicated to eradicating educational inequalities in our country.

My application essays were about my LP rewards and challenges…in my interview I spoke about successfully leading a team of people, living my word and taking a stand for my vision. I know the confidence, power, grace and courageousness I exuded every moment demonstrated that I was a world-changing difference maker. I learned in LP that “100% is possible 100% of the time”, so I chose to move across the country with this program and leave everything I knew behind to blaze new trails! Life after LP has been amazing because there is no “after LP.” I’ve learned that I can always create a team of people to support and motivate me. I can always stretch myself and play enrollment games. I can prove I’m an outrageous leader standing for love, abundance and empowerment every day. Because of WorldLegacy Leadership, when one of my students tells me I am the smartest, prettiest, craziest teacher they’ve ever had, I can say “Thank you, I know.”

Jessica

It Takes a (Safety) Village article

by | Jan 10, 2015 | Article, Children, Family, Safety Village, safetyvillagearticle, Youth

Durham Safe Kids Coalition, Durham, NC

NC42 created an area with miniature homes, schools, hospitals, stop signs and traffic lights to allow the Durham Police Department teach children about guns, traffic and other safety issues. Durham Safety Village. Program for Children. Budget: $24,000. December 2001.

It takes a (safety) village

Author: Anne Blythe; Staff Writer December 10, 2001 Durham — Police have a new place to teach children how to cross a street safely and other valuable life-saving lessons. A 25-person team from the WorldLegacy, a leadership training program in Chapel Hill, spent the past five weeks transforming three Morreene Park tennis courts into the diminutive Durham Safety Village complete with small plywood homes, shops, a hospital, miniature streets, stop signs and traffic lights — just like any Smalltown, USA. “It’s something that has been a labor of love for a lot of people,” Danny Polinsky, 24, said Sunday afternoon before turning over the keys to the village to the Durham Police Department. “This is really our gift from us to the children of the Triangle and the state of North Carolina.” At the village, police will teach youngsters about guns, drugs, traffic and other safety issues. Firefighters will coach them about what to do in case of a fire. “What you see before you today is the culmination of a vision I had about a year and a half ago,” Lt. J.R. Byrd Sr. said. On Sunday afternoon, the leadership team members celebrated the results of their labor with a small ceremony at the new village. Children pedaled along the new routes and hoisted balloons. Byrd plans to develop a Safety Village curriculum soon so classes can be offered in the summer and on school breaks.
Reprinted with Permission of The News &Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina.

It takes a small village to teach child safety

DURHAM — Children can learn all about safety, from how to deal with strangers to gun safety , when the police department dedicates its first children’s Safety Village on Sunday. Safety Village, at Morreene Road Park on Morreene Road near U.S. 15-501 Bypass, teaches 4- and 5-year-old children lessons about playground, bicycle, fire and gun safety. Children also can get pointers about traffic, being a pedestrian, poisons, drugs and what to do when confronted with strangers. The lessons are taught in a miniature village setting, which includes a firehouse, school, mall, residential neighborhood and police station. The village structure was developed by The Legacy Group of Chapel Hill, a leadership training organization that requires its members to perform community service.
The project, initiated more than a year ago, was entirely financed through community and business donations. It is a joint effort of the Durham Police Department, Durham Parks and Recreation Department, Durham Fire Department, City of Durham Traffic Engineering (Sign Shop), Safe Communities Committee, and SAFE KIDS.

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