12-17-2020, 05:53 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-22-2020, 05:45 AM by Opera_Phantom.)
12-17-2020, 05:53 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-22-2020, 05:45 AM by Opera_Phantom.)
This holiday season Duke Cheeks is going back to his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia to volunteer at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. CHOA is a great hospital that provides medical care for adolescents. Duke has been involved with CHOA for several years now because his older sister works as a Physicians Assistant at the hospital. Every year him and his family provide a Christmas lunch for the employees that are working on Christmas Day. This year, Duke will be able to provide a much snazzier spread since he has recently come into a lot more money being a professional athlete. After they set up lunch for the employees, Duke will go visit the sick kids and hangout with them for a few hours. He has even promised to participate in a dance competition with one sick 14 year old boy. Duke will also come baring gifts for all of the children. He has bought lots of dolls, action figures, tricycles, and mini cars. Providing for our healthcare professionals and kids that have extended stays in hospitals is one of Dukes passions. Duke hopes that everyone in the ISFL community will lend a hand to their causes that they are passionate about this holiday season because that is what the season is all about!
"You relieve the same day over and over again, you kind of start to see who you really are."
Well obviously, during a pandemic there is not much one can do on the face to face front, yet despite all of the external strife and general miserable climate, there is still much that can be done to help those around us; it just has to be done in a different way. Taking inspiration from the actions of Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford, Suleiman Ramza has been trying to help the children of California. Through the Goodwill of Orange County, Ramza’s money will hopefully go to helping those struggling to find and maintain jobs overcome those obstacles and provide new opportunities to relieve the good people of Anaheim of their unemployment and replace it with stable employment and income. Through a social media campaign with Orange County United Way to recruit more virtual tutors for the schools of Orange County. Working with the OCUW ended up being really fun as for a week, Ramza got to host a daily streaming session, where he would read a short story for them; he even got to use his history diploma to read some more medieval texts during one of his days. Through this campaign, Ramza and OCWU were able to find volunteers for hundreds of reading tutor hours.
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