Cart Bringing quality care to orphans and abused children
04/13
TI employee Crystal Nadeau has dedicated over 200 volunteer hours to Flying Kites, a global nonprofit that provides high quality residential care to children in Kenya.
Crystal Nadeau, a TI product development engineer working in TI's facility in Maine, is on a mission to help some of Kenya's most desperate orphaned and abused children.
As part of her efforts to support Flying Kites, a global nonprofit that provides high quality residential care to children through a "Family House" concept, Crystal raised the funds needed to sponsor 25 children in 2012 and generated a great deal of awareness along the way.
"I have chosen to make a conscience effort to raise awareness for the children of Flying Kites by integrating opportunities that arise in my life," Crystal said.
Last year, while presenting her engineering work at TI's 2012 International Yield Summit, Crystal took the opportunity to encourage the large audience to make a difference in humanity by talking about her volunteer efforts with Flying Kites.
"After seeing the positive response from my speech, I arranged an interview with the local TV news station and again spoke about the children of Flying Kites and the true power that every individual has to make a difference," she said.
"Choosing to raise money and awareness for a humanitarian cause has given me invaluable entrepreneurial and leadership skills. It has also given me the ability to effectively solve a problem or realize an opportunity by leveraging the tipping point and inspire emotion in others. Understanding which details affect the big picture is very powerful. It has caused me to see ordinary "everyday" happenings as opportunities and ask the question, 'Why not?'"
— Crystal Nadeau
Building skills and helping others
Since 2011, Crystal has dedicated over 200 volunteer hours to Flying Kites. Through her volunteer efforts, she has been able to help others and build critical networking, communication and organizational skills.
According to Leila de Bruyne, president of Flying Kites, Crystal has designed and maintained one informational and two donation web pages and served as the lead director, host and participant for several successful fundraising events.
"Crystal's tremendous fundraising efforts have made a true difference in the lives of these children," Leila said. "Her passion for the children is contagious, and we are so pleased to have her as a supporter and member of our global team of volunteers."
