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Generation: Volunteer Crazy

Thursday, February 15, 2007 3:30:52 PM
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Terri Dombrowski is on the run. The 76 year-old doesn't slow down for anybody, unless it's a special child with a special wish. Terri is racing to keep breakfast on the table.

"I have to see that we have enough help, see that they have enough food on the tables or whatever out on the dining room, see that it's clean afterwards," said Dombrowski.

She volunteers at the Give Kids the World Village in Kissimmee three mornings a week.

Give Kids The World is a non-profit organization providing all expense paid trips to Central Florida for children facing life-threatening illnesses and their families. Yet this mother of five is not alone.

Terri's husband, of 49 years, helps out too. Ten years ago, Terri and Frank visited the Village and never left.

"We'd thought we'd come and try it, once, and we got hooked. It was very rewarding,"

Terri Dombrowski said.

It's a way for this couple to stay active following Frank's bout with cancer and a chance to give back.

"We've had so much good luck in spite of my husband's illness, we felt like we got this far to Florida, and we felt this was something we could do to help somebody," Dombrowski said.

Besides helping, it's a job where you have to mind your manners.

The two joke that they have never had a food fight, at least not in front of the kids. And with that, it's back to work.

That's Generation to Generation, Scott Fais, Central Florida News 13.

 

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