CECILIA SAAVEDRA EXEMPLIFIES PA STUDENTS’ GENEROSITY OF SPIRIT We’ve seen it time and time again. Project Achieve students step up when there is a need in the community. The following is excerpted from a story on people stepping up to help others during the COVID-19 pandemic in the March 29, 2020 edition of the Omaha World-Herald.
TRYING TO STAY OPTIMISTIC': A DAY IN THE LIFE OF OMAHA, A CITY SHUT DOWN BY CORONAVIRUS “There’s no silver bullet to beat the virus. How can Omahans feel some sense of control? They give. Cecilia Saavedra devotes hours to shopping and delivering groceries to the elderly, the ill, and the immunocompromised. Her mission today at Supermercado Nuestra Familia on Vinton Street is a family with three young children, two of whom have asthma. The 26-year-old University of Nebraska at Omaha student spends nearly five minutes wiping down a shopping cart before filling it with broccoli, lettuce, potatoes, bananas, five-pound bags of dried pinto beans and rice, six cans each of tomato sauce and green peas, a box of Frosted Flakes—a tiny treat for the kids. The bill: $51.52. It comes out of her pocket.” Generosity of spirit. That’s Cecilia. That’s every Project Achieve student.
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