\u201cSi no fuera por el Boys & Girls Club, no ser\u00eda quien soy hoy\u201d, dijo Courtney, de 16 a\u00f1os. \u201cA lo largo de mis a\u00f1os de venir al Club, me he dado cuenta de cu\u00e1nto me encantar\u00eda trabajar con ni\u00f1os en mi futuro\u201d, dijo. \u201cPasar el d\u00eda con ellos y ayudarlos a aprender cosas nuevas me hace feliz\u201d.<\/p>\n
Cuando comenz\u00f3 a ir a su Boys & Girls Club hace ocho a\u00f1os, Courtney supo que hab\u00eda descubierto un lugar especial. El Club era un lugar donde pod\u00eda divertirse con amigos, obtener ayuda con la tarea y experimentar cosas nuevas.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u00a1Venir al Club fue la mejor decisi\u00f3n de todas!\u201d ella dijo. \u201cVoy pr\u00e1cticamente todos los d\u00edas despu\u00e9s de la escuela y me quedo hasta que cierra por la noche\u201d.<\/p>\n
A medida que creci\u00f3 y se familiariz\u00f3 m\u00e1s con los programas del Club, se convirti\u00f3 gradualmente en una mentora y l\u00edder, y la mayor\u00eda de los d\u00edas ahora la encontrar\u00e1 ayudando a los miembros m\u00e1s j\u00f3venes con su tarea o realizando una actividad en el gimnasio. Ella tambi\u00e9n da la bienvenida y gu\u00eda a los nuevos miembros.<\/p>\n
\u201cEs mi trabajo asegurarme de que los ni\u00f1os nuevos tengan un recorrido adecuado y me encanta presentarles nuestro Club\u201d, dijo Courtney. \u201cCada ni\u00f1o que he mostrado siempre ha sabido qu\u00e9 \u00e1rea quiere descubrir primero y las sonrisas en sus rostros no tienen precio. Todos y cada uno de los ni\u00f1os saben que pueden contar conmigo para lo que sea, cuando sea, y yo tambi\u00e9n puedo contar con ellos\u201d.<\/p>\n
Courtney espera seguir su pasi\u00f3n por ayudar a los ni\u00f1os de todo el mundo. \u201cLa educaci\u00f3n es muy importante y el aprendizaje a una edad temprana es crucial. Muchos ni\u00f1os en todo el mundo no tienen acceso a una educaci\u00f3n adecuada porque viven demasiado lejos y no tienen transporte, sus familias no pueden permitirse que asistan o tienen que quedarse en casa y ayudar a cuidar de la familia. ," Ella explic\u00f3.<\/p>\n
Pero por ahora, su pasi\u00f3n por cambiar vidas se cumple en el Boys & Girls Club.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cNo puedo enfatizar lo suficiente lo mucho que este Club ha hecho por m\u00ed. Estoy m\u00e1s que agradecido por cada persona que ha entrado en mi vida gracias a esta organizaci\u00f3n\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cIf it wasn\u2019t for the Boys & Girls Club, I wouldn\u2019t be who I am today,\u201d said 16-year-old Courtney. \u201cThroughout my years of coming to the Club, I have realized how much I would love to work with kids in my future,\u201d she said. \u201cSpending my day with them and helping them learn new things […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kid-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgcmd.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgcmd.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgcmd.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgcmd.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgcmd.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19133"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgcmd.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23496,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgcmd.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19133\/revisions\/23496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgcmd.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgcmd.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgcmd.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgcmd.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}