EyeCode Media TVoL: Help One Now-Helping Community Leaders Empower Their Communities
Will Kiley was a high school educator who asked his students if the world was becoming more or less beautiful over time. When he got the results of his anonymous survey, he was shocked to hear the results. (You’ll have to listen to hear the answer.) That led him to wonder if others in the world saw it the same way. He was moved by the pastor of his church who left the ministry at the church to begin a ministry to help communities to utilize the leadership they already had and partner with the organization Help One Now. The organization began after the pastor, who later became the founder of Help One Now, was on a mission trip to Zimbabwe where he happened upon a group of orphaned youths at a gas station while he and his team were on their way with food for another group of orphans. They asked for some help, just food and water. The pastor had a full truck of stuff he knew that the intended children could not do without, but he had to tell these children he had nothing for them. That broke him and led him to his calling today.
Will, on the other hand, was moving from Austin, TX where he was an educator, to the Raleigh, NC area where his wife was being transferred for work. He had been supporting Help One Now for a few years after hearing the “too good to be true” story Help One Now had and then found it was true. Well, when he got to NC he found out the organization’s headquarters was there and met up with his former church leader to find out they needed someone just like Will. Some call this coincidence. Will calls it faith played out. Now Help One Now has a project in the Dominican Republic for the development of a school and a health care facility to have eyecare provided by a local optometrist. You will want to know how you can help too. But not just with your money. Will wants to speak with you personally to see where you fit in and here a “too good to be true” story that really is true.
The DR Optometry Fundraising Page: https://helponenow.org/dominican-republic-vision-care/
The Circle: https://helponenow.org/the-circle/