Neighbor to Neighbor WorldLegacy Project
In two days WorldLegacy’s NC113 Leadership Team created a recreational facility in Raleigh, NC’s inner city. This was an extreme undertaking. This project took a dirty old metal storage building and transformed it into a beautiful, clean recreational facility—half of which will be used for games such as billiards, ping-pong, foosball, card and board games. The other half will be used for free weights and fitness equipment. The property was beautified with new flowers, shrubs, mulch, and sod, picnic tables and benches. The project weekend was bustling with many volunteers of all ages, who were excited to be giving back to their community, and anticipating a clean, safe place to play. At the ribbon cutting ceremony, Secretary Linda Hayes commented that the flood of excitement, not only from WorldLegacy NC113, but from the volunteers, members, and neighbors is part of tangible, dynamic transformation. Budget: $37,500.
Neighbor2Neighbor
Community center gets its game room
WorldLegacy Leadership Project
From staff report
Oct 15, 2009
RALEIGH — Students who visit the Neighbor to Neighbor youth center after school have a new game room, thanks to the efforts of more than 100 volunteers.
The volunteers, led by a team from the WorldLegacy in Morrisville, worked through the weekend to turn an unfinished garage into a hangout with ping pong, foosball, pool tables and other games.
The project, valued at more than $20,000, fulfills a wish for Neighbor to Neighbor, a faith-based organization that serves families in one of the Triangle’s poorest neighborhoods.
“This is something we’ve been wanting to do,” said executive director Royce Hathcock. “To get a group of people to come in and knock it out like that is awesome.”
Between 50 and 100 students visit the youth center on South Blount Street most weekday afternoons to meet with mentors, use computers and do their homework. The game room gives them a safe place to spend time after school, Hathcock said.
The project was put together by the 10-member Visionary WorldLegacy N.C. 113 Leadership Team, the 113th team to go through the leadership program at the WorldLegacy, a life-coaching company.
Reprinted with permission from The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina
In two days our WorldLegacy NC113 Leadership Team from North Carolina did a community project at Neighbor to Neighbor. We chose this faith-based organization because it is located in the inner-city of Southeast Raleigh and could really touch many people who need a place to get off the streets. This was an extreme undertaking. This project took a dirty old metal storage building and transformed it into a beautiful, clean recreational facility—half of which will be used for large games such as billiards, ping-pong, and foosball, and also card and board games, and the other half will be used for free weights and fitness equipment We also beautified the property by landscaping the grounds with new flowers, shrubs, mulch, and sod, and built two picnic tables and two benches for guests to relax on while enjoying each other’s company and eating Sunday lunch or watching a game of basketball We did this extreme makeover on one weekend. We had a few weeks to get everything together. It had to happen. The project weekend was bustling with many volunteers of all ages, who were excited to be giving back to their community, and anticipating a clean, safe place to play. At the ribbon cutting ceremony, Secretary Linda Hayes commented that the flood of excitement, not only from WorldLegacy NC113, but from the volunteers, members, and neighbors is part of tangible, dynamic transformation. Our final budget was around $30,000. This extreme giving undertaking could not have happened without having done all the coaching, stretches and transformational trainings at WorldLegacy. One of the most amazing parts of this project was that gang members helped out with all the construction and painting that was done. A bit scary and eye opening for me. Neighbor to Neighbor has wanted to do this project for years but couldn’t make it work. The executive director Royce Hathcock said to us that we did an awesome job.
