Today's featured NCCC team member is Derek Burkhardt.
Derek Burkhardt
Hometown: Manchester, NH
1. What does LIVE UNITED mean to you?
As a community we need to work together to improve our environment, other lives, as well as ourselves.
2. What are you passionate about?
Family, music, sports, teaching, kids, and the environment.
3. When did you start volunteering and/or giving back to your community?
I have been involved in community service since I was little. My parents and my church both encouraged me to volunteer in my community.
4. How are you involved in the community?
Volunteer
5. What have you learned from volunteering and being a part of your community?
I have learned that the preservation of one’s community and one’s environment is in turn the preservation of oneself. Helping others is helping yourself.
6. What community issues are you most concerned about?
Education
7. Why do you think it is important to give back to your community?
Service is the best way to support, liven and keep a community healthy. It encourages others to take the right steps.
8. Do you have any particular memory from giving back to the community or volunteering?
We helped a lady who was a Katrina victim rebuild her house from the ground up. Seeing her press on after losing everything was an example of great strength and perseverance to me.
Derek Burkhardt
Hometown: Manchester, NH
1. What does LIVE UNITED mean to you?
As a community we need to work together to improve our environment, other lives, as well as ourselves.
2. What are you passionate about?
Family, music, sports, teaching, kids, and the environment.
3. When did you start volunteering and/or giving back to your community?
I have been involved in community service since I was little. My parents and my church both encouraged me to volunteer in my community.
4. How are you involved in the community?
Volunteer
5. What have you learned from volunteering and being a part of your community?
I have learned that the preservation of one’s community and one’s environment is in turn the preservation of oneself. Helping others is helping yourself.
6. What community issues are you most concerned about?
Education
7. Why do you think it is important to give back to your community?
Service is the best way to support, liven and keep a community healthy. It encourages others to take the right steps.
8. Do you have any particular memory from giving back to the community or volunteering?
We helped a lady who was a Katrina victim rebuild her house from the ground up. Seeing her press on after losing everything was an example of great strength and perseverance to me.
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