Nicole Andino may hold the record for the longest-serving staff member at Hope for Miami, as mid-March marks her seventeenth year with the agency. Her supervisor and peers nominated her as the MVP due to her creativity and connection to the families and children she serves. Currently, she manages the Pinelands afterschool site – the location where she started her career with Hope for Miami. One of the hallmarks of any site location where Nicole has been the manager is the decorating for Dr. Seuss Day and her creative decorations for “Grinchmas.”
This winter, Nicole has been coordinating with our other Nicole (Harris) from our NeighborNet program to arrange for community volunteers to spruce up the Pinelands location. The site has been collaborating with Hope for Miami for twenty years – so clean-up, re-painting, and re-decorating were badly needed. A team of volunteers from FIU went down for a workday in January, and now both Nicoles are working hard to get the rest of the work finished in the facility in time for a Spring Open House.
One testimony to the effectiveness of the work of the Pinelands afterschool program: the Principal of the adjacent elementary school has personally walked over three families this year to Nicole’s site. Thank you, Principal Adrienne Wright-Mullins from Cutler Ridge Elementary School, for your continued support of Hope for Miami and Nicole Andino for your excellent work.
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