18/07/2021
Tilda Kemplen grew up and lives in the rugged mountains of the east Tennessee. She went to one-room school through the eighth grade, and then repeated the eighth grade because there was no high school to attend. Later, as a cook for Methodist Mission school, she becaome determined to go back to school. She enrolled in high school at age 32 - with a husband, three small children, a job as a cook, and a home to keep - and graduated five years later. Then she earned a collage degree in early education.
Tilda wanted to help the mountain children avoid the problems she experienced. She wanted to establish a program for them, but there were no funds and no buildings. So she volunteered her time and help class in the field. Later, she raised funds for a child development center, which has employed over six hundred persons in a country with a twenty-six percent unemployment rate.
Tilda, who recently in Washington received the Jefferson Award for outstanding public service, says "Everyone has some talents. If I can do it, you can too."
Think about it. It's not your situation, but what you make of that situation, which determines what you will acomplish with your life.