Interview med Joel Davis om Homework Help

Yesterday I interviewed Joel Davis. Joel Davis was nominated for Young People of the Year 2014. Joel Davis is from Islington, London, Great Britain. Joel Davis was born in 1995, and he expressed himself that: “My family was very poor, and I was always helping my sick mom”. He continues with: “It made studying in school very hard for me”. I could see in his eyes that he began to get emotional. “It was a very hard time for me, because I didn´t get any help”. He cut of here as he couldn’t talk about it anymore. Later on I got to talk with him again, and this time he added: “This hard time in my life inspired me to set up the Homework Help”. Joel have helped 170 children, and achievements have definitely been made. Poor children’s grades have gone up after they´ve been at the Homework Help. Volunteering university students are the “teachers” at the Homework Help. And Joel´s idea has now been spread, and more Homework Help places have popped up in Great Britain. Joel was the lucky winner of 500 pounds for his work. Joel also got help from one of his best friends to set up a website where he shared the idea. He got a lot of great reviews when the website came up, and a lot of people really liked the idea. After the interview I was very impressed with what he had achieved with his idea. I was almost speechless when he told me about his childhood. I have never heard a story like that before. And I got very impressed when he told me that his childhood was the inspiration for the Homework Help. After the interview I learned that you can always turn a bad situation or period into a good thing. Maybe you can´t turn it into something good during the bad period, but after you might have a good shot at accomplishing something very good. Today I myself am working on setting up a Homework Help in my own area, as I got so inspired. The idea of helping other people in need is really exciting for me. I´ve contacted some of my friends, and we are today working on setting up a Homework Help in Cambridge as there hopefully will be volunteers from Cambridge University to help us. You can contact me if you want to volunteer at the Homework Help in Cambridge.