High school dive meet raising money for Lexington nonprofit

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – The nonprofit, Believing in Eternally Inc. simply completed their youth coat drive.

Bryan station highschool hosted the Kentucky highschool invitational dive meet and with the assistance of faculties throughout the Commonwealth, they’re making waves of change.

College students are making a splash in the neighborhood.

Jeff Vanderhorst is on the dive crew at Lexington Catholic.

He stated working together with his crew and others in his college made him excited.

“Everybody sort of hopped on board. It helped in the direction of a trigger, and it actually introduced lots of my pals in the neighborhood nearer collectively. Particularly the dive crew. All of us received to get collectively and lift these funds. It was a very good time,” Vanderhorst stated.

The Kentucky Excessive College Invitational is making an impression out and in of the water.

Greater than 25 groups throughout the state got here to the meet, hoping to assist extra college students similar to them.

To date, they’ve raised over 600 {dollars} for the nonprofit Believing in Eternally.

It’s a company Devine Carama stated, focuses on mentoring and neighborhood service.

“One factor about our youth is that we preserve telling them they’re the leaders of the long run. In actuality, they’re the leaders of now.” Carama stated.

This is only one instance of them embracing that management and making a wave of change.

“It made me understand I had extra of an impression than I really thought I’ve, and I can exit and assist in any means I can,” Vanderhorst stated.

Carama stated this is part of their initiative.

Not solely are the scholars studying by fundraising and neighborhood service, however they’re additionally serving to organizations attain their targets.

“It’s about letting them know, not one group or one individual can do every thing, but when all of us come collectively, you’ll get lots completed. That’s how we’ve been in a position to maintain ourselves by the final decade. It’s partnerships like this,” Carama stated.

On the finish of the day, it’s not about how excessive you rating, however how large of a splash you may make on the neighborhood.

Devine Carama tells us they’ll be profiting from all the cash made by these colleges.

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