I have one of the best jobs in Delaware, every day that I go to work I get to focus on things that I think will help kids in our state. But as I go along, there are certain moments—sometimes involving very small things–that I know I am going to look back on and remember. I had one just last week.
A few days ago, I went down to ShopRite’s new store at the Wilmington Riverfront to thank a couple dozen of its employees who were undergoing training to become mentors at Warner Elementary School in Wilmington. Shop-Rite is the first company to step up and participate in a program I started to have ten Delaware businesses form mentoring partnerships this year with ten public schools in our state who have kids that really need the help. I had to leave this mentoring session a little early, but I stopped in my tracks when I heard Warner Elementary principal Meg Hoefer talking to the Shop-Rite employees. She looked around at them, and very emotionally told them “You have no idea what you are doing for these kids. Every day that you are coming to visit, that will be the center of their day. It is what they will be thinking about and talking about all morning. You will change their lives.” We get so caught up trying to get these programs started and make sure all the nuts and bolts are in place that we sometimes don’t step back and look at what we’ve done. Twenty years from now, I will remember what Meg Hoefer said and I will be proud of the program we’ve started and of ShopRite for taking the lead.
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