Each year, Medworks offers its team members five days of PTO for the purpose of providing outreach to the community in both local and global settings. We call this effort "Making the Community Better, Making the World Better." Recently, Treysi Knox, Medworks' Customer Care Coordinator, stepped up to serve the schools where her children attend. Here she shares the story of her experience.

This year during my "Making the Community Better" outreach, I volunteered in my son and daughter's classrooms. The larger portion of my focus time was spent on daughter Tatum's 4th grade class at John B. Cary Elementary. They had abruptly lost their beloved teacher in the middle of the year! The school's administration needed a few weeks to find a long-term replacement so in the meantime, many of us parents stepped in to volunteer. We helped with daily classroom tasks as well as assisting on field trips. This gave me an opportunity to not only lend a hand with the daily run of the classroom but also to go to Jamestown with my daughter's class. Many of these 4th graders began their school careers together back in Kindergarten, so I had met a good number of them throughout the years. It was so fun to see how much they had grown and a true joy to spend time with them outside of the classroom. As well, I had a chance to help with Field Day both at Blackwell Preschool for my son, Maddox, and again at John B. Cary with Tatum. Maddox's school had lost a principal and was experiencing serious understaffing issues. So even though the extenuating circumstances were difficult, I was able to reap the benefit of enjoying a special opportunity to hang with the little PreK children and have a fun day of play!