At the heart of Eboney Luckey’s weekly volunteerism at Hope Haven is her belief that everyone should be offered a chance at recovery and rehabilitation. And what better way to provide a fresh start than to tutor adults who are trying to obtain their GEDs. Every Monday evening you’ll find Eboney arriving early to this GED/ABE Tutoring project so she can photocopy study sheets and worksheets for a group of enthusiastic students.Eboney is a stay-at-home mom and a native of Charlotte who originally found out about Hands On Charlotte from her daughter’s middle school in 2007. Having always tutored in some form—from the neighborhood community center to helping classmates in the school library during lunch—Eboney has a passion for teaching and learning. Her background is in information technology and telecommunications, and she uses this expertise in her extensive preparation before every project. Each student is on a different level in his or her GED preparations, and Eboney has developed countless practice sheets for the students to use in their studying.
Eboney chooses to volunteer through Hands On Charlotte because of its organized approach to volunteering and the variety of projects through which she can help. She wants others to be aware that everyone can do something and make an impact on the world around them. Hands On Charlotte’s goal is to help people do just that.
“Education is a right, and everyone should have access to learn the basic skills,” Eboney said.
It is with this conviction that Eboney continues to “do something” quite extraordinary.
--Sarah Langford
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