Helping Hands And Caring Hearts of America Benefits Low Income Minority Students
Press Release – Gene Legler knows the importance of giving and serving. Those values were impressed upon him as a young boy by his parents while growing up in Rochester, N.Y.
Legler’s parents regularly donated money to charities, and his mother volunteered to clean the sacristy at the church on a monthly basis. When he was a child, his family always had food on the table, yet his parents reminded them that there were several families that did not. Even though his family didn’t have everything they wanted, they always had everything they needed.
The North Texas author never forgot those words, and they became the foundation that Helping Hands and Caring Hearts of America was built upon. By creating the non-profit organization, Legler’s goal is to help the less fortunate and encourage others to do so as well.
As executive director of the charity, Legler’s initial vision was to provide financial assistance through scholarship awards to two minority college-bound seniors coming with low income backgrounds. Each scholarship recipient would then give back to their community through service with the Helping Hands and Caring Hearts Volunteer Team throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area. That vision is now coming to fruition.
Helping Hands and Caring Hearts of America will award the very first of those scholarships at the conclusion of this current school year in June 2017.
Applications for the Prepare 4 Tomorrow Scholarship are now being accepted online at www.helpinghandsandcaringheartsofamerica.org through March 1, 2017. After the scholarships have been awarded, the two recipients will serve with Helping Hands and Caring Hearts Volunteer Team in the Dallas-Fort Worth community. Following volunteer service, the scholarship awards will be sent to the recipients’ college of choice. Students must continue to attend classes and maintain at least a 2.5 grade-point average (or equivalent).
All proceeds from Gene Legler’s new book, My Huggy Bear (Brown Books Publishing Group, 2016) benefit Helping Hands and Caring Hearts of America.
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