Big Brothers Big Sisters of America has been around for well over 100 years and is known as the nation’s largest youth mentoring organization. Locally here in the tri-state area Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ohio Valley which serves a handfull of counties including Henderson, Kentucky has been in existence for more than 20 years. This service to Henderson has been limited due to lack of funding and required resources to make and monitor each match. However, just 4 weeks ago, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Henderson County opened it’s doors at 111 South Adams Street (located within the Housing Authority of Henderson).
This community opportunity was made possible by persons like; Judge Rob Weiderstien, who saw a need from increased numbers of youth appearing in the court system and chose to do something to change those statistics, and women like Darlene Marshall-Ware who gives of herself selflessly to help children in our community succeed, she started something with a passion, Becky Durham who’s heart for children overflows with love, compassion and caring with big results. There are more, many more persons in our community that have stepped up to Start Something BIG for the children of Henderson by providing guidance, experience and passion by donating their time to the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Henderson County Advisory Board. This group of committed community volunteers began meeting almost 12 months ago, continues to meet monthly and have launched a new satellite office here in Henderson County to better serve our youth, which will have its ribbon cutting and open house next Friday, September 16th, 12:30 pm. In addition the group has not only raised community awareness, funding, donations and volunteers, the Advisory Board has established a goal of 30 matches in the first 12 months, which records indicated most likely will be surpassed within the first 3-6 months of operations.
A strong, passionate team of like-minded community volunteers wanting to Start Something Big for the youth of Henderson have done just that. But our works only begun, we need your help. To help make Big changes for children of Henderson, KY by donating, volunteering or advocating contact me, Greg Gibson at ggibson@bbbshenderson.org or 270 631 0738 and together we can change the life of a Henderson child.
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