Why LHCDC?

For as long as I can remember volunteering and helping others in any way I can has been a passion of mine. This passion has never wavered, and I do it as often as I can. Throughout high school I was granted the opportunity, through Project Potential, to volunteer with Lexington Housing Community Development Corporation to help make homes of the elderly more livable for them.  I always looked forward to being able to do this. However, my first interaction with LHCDC came before I even entered high school. It came when their work hit very close to home. My great-grandmother’s home was in a condition not suitable for an elderly woman to live in. At all. With a roof that needed to be replaced many years before and a bedroom ceiling now leaking, it broke our family’s hearts for someone who had done so much for so many people not to be able to afford to get a new roof. We were beyond grateful when LHCDC brought students from their group work camp to fix my great-grandmother’s roof and ceiling. At that age I knew this was a great thing; however, it was not until high school, when I began to volunteer with LHCDC, that I understood the caliber of work that they did for my great-grandmother and the weight that they had lifted off of my family’s back.

                      

As I have progressed though my college years, my drive to help others has grown at an exponential rate, so much so that I have decided that I want my career path to involve helping others in some capacity. My drive is especially prevalent to helping those in the city that I was born and raised in: Lexington, North Carolina. During my junior year of college, having more life experience under my belt and truly understanding what it meant to help others I decided that I wanted to do more for my community. I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do. Then it hit me.... LHCDC! Remembering my volunteering experience with them, what they had done for my great-grandmother and what they had done for the community as a whole, I wanted to be involved and see how it all worked on the inside. These thoughts pushed me to find a way in which I could get involved with the organization that I am so fond of. 

This summer I was granted an internship opportunity with LHCDC and I couldn’t be more excited!

                     

On the first day, it was explained to me that during the duration of my internship I will have the title of Co-Editorial Director for the student edition of the Empowerment Magazine (make sure you pick up your copy), which is a magazine that has been launched by LHCDC as a resource for the citizens of Davidson County. I will also attend community events with the LHCDC team among other things. I have been afforded an amazing opportunity with an amazing organization and 

I am beyond excited for all that I will learn and all of the experience that I will gain.