Are you the Dream Leader type?
January 20th, 2010 by DreamsforKids | Filed under Abby Kritzler ||
The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.-Martin Luther King Jr.
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When we planned to have some of our Dream Leaders volunteer with Chicago Cares Celebration of Service in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. on Saturday, January 16th, we were nervous of how many students would actually show up at 7:45am on the Saturday of their vacation weekend, especially when you consider many of them don’t have involved parents who will wake them up. That’s why as each Dream Leader shuffled in from the cold as the sun had barely risen, we became all the more filled with hope for this generation. Watching these teens so committed to helping others and so proud of being a Dream Leader made the day one of the most inspiring of my life. Yet, rather than hearing how I was impacted, I thought it would be better to hear from one of the Dream Leaders. I now introduce you to George Lopez, Dream Leader:
Martin Luther King Jr. envisioned a world in which everyone got along and worked together to accomplish a goal peacefully. On Saturday January 16, 2010, 3000 people from different backgrounds came together to help fix neighborhoods that were labeled with negative words and pictures and to give a helping hand to those who couldn’t help themselves.
I woke up at 6:00am on Saturday to dedicate my day to Martin Luther King and his dream. I met up with Abby Kritzler, the coordinator of Dreams for Kids, along with nine other Dream Leaders at Union Station. We were headed to Team Englewood Community Academy on the south west side of Chicago. Team Englewood is a new school that is filled with potential. The volunteers of the day saw the school to be filled with worthy students that deserved a better learning environment. So we set off to better improve their school.
The Dream Leaders, accompanied by other volunteers, spent the day creating a mosaic to say “Go Eagles,” the school’s mascot. The process took many hours to complete but included lots of team work, hard work, and dedication from Dream Leaders of different backgrounds. The day was filled with events and adventures that brightened my life and the view I had on the world and what we as a people could accomplish.
What struck me the most was the fact that many of the Dream Leader volunteers were in high school, one even in a wheel chair. This goes to show that everyone is capable of learning and helping. Now I realize what it truly means to be a Dream Leader. Being a Dream Leader means being the type of person that will go out of your way to help others in need. To look at the world with open eyes and open hands and inspire the millions of people who are pushed aside, because of their race, social class, and abilities. January 16, 2010 will always be in my memory as the day when everyone became one and accomplished everything.
 To see all the pictures from the event click HERE.
Sincerely, Abby Kritzler and the Dream Team
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