Community Builder Award Winners
AHC is so grateful for the hundreds of volunteers whose time and attention makes such a huge difference to our students. During our Annual Meeting, we honored three wonderful Community Builders whose efforts are not only planting the seeds of success for our students, but also helping our programs grow.
AHC's 2019 Community Builders are:
Ronn Levine has been an AHC volunteer for 20 years! Not only has he been reading to our students for two decades, but he has also created a whole team to provide a monthly program for our students. "When you get honored for something you enjoy, that's as good as it gets," said Ronn. "The program has always been on Mondays. For many that's the worst day of the week. But, because of this program, Mondays are the best day of the week for me."
The MasterCard team has been volunteering with AHC's Teen Tutoring Program for more than five years. Since then, the number of MasterCard volunteers has more than tripled. Not only is the group building one-on-one relationships, they have also created ways for our students to explore career opportunities through job shadowing. We honored six long-time MasterCard volunteers: Bruce Clarke, Chris Dieckhaus, Liz Liang, Nyk Lotocky, Jason Rubin, and Radha Sambasivan.
Aisha Farooq is a long-time AHC resident who participated in AHC's education programs as a teenager. After proudly graduating from the University of Richmond, Aisha wanted to give back to the program that helped her along the way by mentoring a high school senior. "AHC's educational programs really helped me navigate through the college process and provided great support," said Aisha. "I wanted to put my time back in to help someone else succeed."
Pictured above: AHC 12019 Community Builders Aisha Farooq, Bruce Clarke, Chris Dieckhaus, Liz Liang, and Ronn Levine.
