Legacy Center Leadership Creates Extreme Makeover Project For Jordan Child And Family Enrichment Center

Online, June 7, 2013 (Newswire.com) - The Jordan Child and Family Enrichment Center, 1305 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh, NC, is receiving an extreme makeover of their playground. Members of the NC144 Leadership Team from the Legacy Center in Carrboro, NC are partnering with the Jordan Child and Family Enrichment Center to revitalize and enhance the playground to incorporate environmental elements that inspire a profound connection between the children and their environment and foster in them a sense of love and abundance.

This project is a part of Legacy Center's three month leadership development program. This playground project will provide the Center's preschoolers with a remodeled greenhouse and new storage facility for toys, child-friendly ground cover, an expanded sandbox with fossil toys, a sunflower garden along with other flowers and improved play structures. What makes this project unique is that the Legacy Center Leadership team must design the project start to finish, cannot use any of their own money, must involve the community to do 75% of the work and also have it complete in a two days!

Legacy Center teams focus on projects that benefit children, environment, animals, elderly, family, health, youth and world community. Team NC144 selected the Jordan Center playground renovation through an application process that examined need, potential and philosophical fit.

The Jordan Center is such a cherished location for the hundreds of orphans who have grown up on that land, it is an honor to be able to establish the kind of love and connection at it was always meant to maintain.

The magic of incorporating mentally, physically and financially challenged children together with typical children will be reflected in the environment that we are creating. These playgrounds that inspire children and honor the environment will give these families and the community a sanctuary that will live in the hearts of every soul that has set foot on the grounds.

Methodist Home for Children opened the five-star Jordan Child and Family Enrichment Center in 2001 to provide high-quality childcare and early intervention for typical and atypically developing preschoolers who have delays or are at-risk for school failure.

The NC144 Leadership team requests your help to make this "Extreme Makeover" project possible the weekend starting June 15, 2013 at 8:00 am Eastern Time extending through Sunday June 16, 2013. We will start each workday at 8:00 am on Saturday and Sunday. Everyone is invited to come out, make a difference, and make this vision become a reality. The playground project will send a powerful message to these children that they matter, are loved and are valued. Join us Saturday or Sunday and see how passionate everyone is in making a difference for these children's lives! We will be celebrating the completion of the project with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Monday, June 24 from 4:00 - 5:00 pm.

For donations or if you have questions, please call Eric McAfee, at 919-619-2789.