Community Outreach

SITE Southeast Event in Sandestin

The SITE 2010 chapter of the year held its spring event at the Sandestin Resort, attracting an international audience of highly qualified meeting consultants and industry suppliers.  With a theme driven by sustainability and social responsibility, attendees were able to collaborate and learn, as well as work together to create a meaningful legacy.

The final event of the Sandestin conference was an afternoon “The Future Is In Our Hands” CSR activity in which The Telluride Tourism Board, in conjunction with Odyssey Teams Helping Hands program, worked with SITE participants to collaborate on building prosthetic hands for the thousands of landmine victims across the world.  The teambuilding experience encouraged members to share challenges and opportunities as they constructed the LN-4 model hands and prepared them to be shipped to those in need. “This exercise to help a child in need regain use of their hands was one of those moments when each participant believed that they could make a difference in the world.” Said Carol Owen, SITE Southeast Chapter President “Our members were eager to “Share the Love!” in a meaningful way.  This collaborative event was just what we needed to close our conference on an emotional high note.”

Wine to Water

Left to right:
Corinne Conner, President, Site Southeast, 2010
Carol Owen, President Site Southeast 2011
Josh Brown, President Elect, Site Southeast for 2012
Annie Clawson-Jessup, Vice President, Wine to Water
Doc Hendley, Founder, Wine to Water

Site Southeast raised over $25,000 for Wine to Water this year, and in order to exceed the amount CNN gave him for his Hero of the Year award. In keeping with our Site Summit theme of VISION 2020, we made the check out for $25,020.20. Doc has traveled to the northern part of South Africa, near the Zimbabwe border, and found an orphanage that needed a well. Our funding has provided for that well, which will be drilled soon to provide approximately 200 children with safe drinking water. This project will be built in honor of Site Southeast Chapter.

Wine To Water is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit aid organization focused on providing clean water to needy people around the world. Over 1 billion people in the world today lack access to adequate water and sanitation.
We are devoted to fighting this epidemic. Wine symbolizes fortune in our society. Our goal is to give the fortunate population an opportunity to fight for those who can’t fight for themselves. You can
contact Doc Hendley | President/Founder | 828.406.1955 for more information about this great organization.

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