Meet Dianne McCaughey
Dianne McCaughey is paired on our InsideOutProject wall with Carol D'Angelo because both women travel to Africa yearly to help those in need. Read more about Dianne here, then scroll down to learn more about Carol D'Angelo in the next post.
Who is Dianne McCaughey?
Dianne McCaughey started out as an aerobics instructor in college and she taught cheerleader camps all over the USA. Upon graduating from college, she moved to Stuart, Florida, in 1980, where she was a high school phys-ed teacher and cheerleading coach - teaching health and nutrition, but most of all, self-love - to young kids who had, and still have, too much pressure to be perfect.
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Who is Dianne McCaughey?
Dianne McCaughey started out as an aerobics instructor in college and she taught cheerleader camps all over the USA. Upon graduating from college, she moved to Stuart, Florida, in 1980, where she was a high school phys-ed teacher and cheerleading coach - teaching health and nutrition, but most of all, self-love - to young kids who had, and still have, too much pressure to be perfect.
Dianne also ran a karate school for 12 years, teaching confidence and personal empowerment over the physical body as well as the mind. After 10 years she began a
personal training business eventually catering to geriatrics and rehabilitation
after obtaining a Ph.D. in Gerontology. She also taught team-building and
personal growth workshops with some of her clients being the United Nations in
NY and Hewlett Packard in
Scandinavia.
Dianne's Personal Mission
Dianne McCaughey's mission and purpose is to educate, inspire, and empower people to be the best they can be. Her whole life has been dedicated to teaching. She wrote a book in 2010 called Y-U-R (a personal growth book about discovering who and why you are - a road map to becoming who you want to be). She loves traveling the world and seeking adventure and giving back at the same time. Dianne believes we are here for three reasons: to learn, to love and to give.
Dianne's Personal Mission
Dianne McCaughey's mission and purpose is to educate, inspire, and empower people to be the best they can be. Her whole life has been dedicated to teaching. She wrote a book in 2010 called Y-U-R (a personal growth book about discovering who and why you are - a road map to becoming who you want to be). She loves traveling the world and seeking adventure and giving back at the same time. Dianne believes we are here for three reasons: to learn, to love and to give.
Three summers
ago Dianne went to Rwanda to work with a company called Global Volunteer Network who worked with an
affiliate company called Faith Victory Association in Kigali Rwanda http://faith-victory.org/. "I always wanted to go to Africa and work in an
orphanage," explains Diane. "Rwanda because of the genocide. FVA was an amazing group
and the volunteer coordinator Claire was so helpful. I brought over
$3000.00 with me and got a lot done with the orphanage. I also brought
clothes and medicine for the children. There were seven volunteers and I was
the only one who brought money and things. I got to know the children and fell
in love with a few of them.
"One boy had bad eyes and I took him to the
doctor - he had been to the doctor many times but I found there was no follow-up. Before I left, I set up a fund for him for one year with doctor's visits and
medicine and projects to be finished with the money I brought. I left Claire
in charge and she did a great job. When I returned I found sponsors for
all 37 children in the orphanage to help pay for school fees (no child goes to
school in Rwanda without paying for books, uniforms and school fees) and home
supplies etc.
"Within one year after my visit, Hope for Homes from the UK
came in and found families and homes for all children (lots of research due to
displacement during and after the genocide). The problem was that some of the families were very poor and could not send the kids to school. FVA
agreed to continue to monitor the kids even after the orphanage. Of the
37, only seven needed extra help, but I have picked up new children in gender based
violent homes as well - through FVA."
What Matters Most to Dianne
"Whether I am teaching a
certification class to certify personal trainers, or a personal empowerment
class, or an exercise class, or an English class to children in another country
- I try to teach that we must question, think for ourselves, and build
alliances for support and nurturing. That we as humans cannot know it all
and that we make mistakes but if we can learn from them - it is for our benefit. I try to pick at least one different mission each year. It could be
one that will continue as in Rwanda or a one time project.
"I took my two nephews to Guatemala for Christmas last year. I put them in Spanish school for
the mornings and in the afternoons we were helping a pueblo for the holiday. One family in particular, but the project grew as we were there, and we
included other students from the language school and we ended up helping 19
families in the pueblo for Christmas. It was amazing and a great start for
my two nephews who will be in the medical field. My older nephew just got
back from Nicaragua on a medical mission with chiropractors and he said he
could not have done it without the start in Guatemala for how to do it and to
be able to speak Spanish."
"Sanjay Gupta M.D. from CNN reported that
there are three things that make people happy - in this order:
1. Exercise
2. Giving Back
3. Building relationships
So let's get out and move and smile and say
something nice - not too hard."
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ~ Luke 6:31, Holy Bible
You
cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kind words can be short and easy to
speak but their echos are truly endless. ~ Mother Teresa
You can find other honorees by clicking on the links below:
Rob Crowder / Curtis Whiticar
Mindi Fetterman / Margie Jordan
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