"A mentor is someone who allows you to see hope in yourself"
-Oprah Winfrey
I attended a University that was huge on community service. Over the 4 years that I attended school I was apart of 8 different organizations and all of them had a community service component. One of my favorite community service opportunities was the Mentoring Group I participated in called Royalty. Royalty was founded by some good girlfriends of mine who invited me onto their E-board their founding year.
The City of Huntsville is a very small town with nothing there except Correctional Facilitates (Yes, Jails). Like many places here in America, the city was made up of beautiful upper middle class neighborhoods, and of course a level of poverty right around the corner. Our Mentoring Hub was in the latter, at the Boys and Girls Club. Although there were many volunteers that frequently attended that Club, there were not many programs offered. My freshman year