Get to Know WCU Intern Tim Kane

  My Name is Tim Kane. I was born and raised in Summit, New Jersey.  I am a junior Social Work major at West Chester University.  I am interning for the semester at Penn State Extension Chester County  and will be working with 4-H CCN for the summer as well.  I have really enjoyed working with 4-H CCN for the past month.  So far I have worked with programs at Nottingham Elementary School in Oxford and at the Phoenixville Civic Center.  I have taught Tai Chi and basketball programs to promote health and fitness with the 4H Jaya Program.  I have also been doing cooking and nutritional lessons with kids in Phoenixville. I would like to visit multiple sites throughout the semester and help where I can.  I simply want to help out 4-H CCN as much as I possibly can. When I was 15-years-old I did a mission trip to Iztapalapa, Mexico.  On this trip I saw a vast amount of poverty and problems that really opened my eyes.  I then went on the same trip that following year and it was then that I fully realized that there are so many more people in the world that need help, than people that don't need help.  Since then I have worked with Interfaith Housing and the homeless in nearby areas of my hometown in New Jersey.  Ever since going to Mexico I found my passion in helping people and want to help as many people as I possibly can.  I really hope that I am able to make a career out of my passion.