Pierre Paul, 21, of Guyanese parentage, did not just lead the cleaning up of the neighborhood and the Target store, but he salvaged food and distributed it to the underprivileged.
Paul met a lot of “great people” during the two-day exercise that lasted for about nine hours each day.
Paul is currently reading for an early master’s degree in nonprofit leadership at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois and will graduate next year.
Paul was an outstanding member of the speech and debate team and choir at Wooster High School.
“I’m the baby of the family and I’m Guyanese by the morals and the values I was thought… I’ve only had the opportunity to do the things I’ve been able to do because of the guidance that my parents provide me (with) and the morals that they thought me…”
He added: “Growing up with a family of excellence you have to rise to the occasion, you have to learn from the great examples that they have set…”
Paul has since been gifted a car, a scholarship, insurance for the car from good samaritans wanting to return the favor.