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Kodriscoll124

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Review for High Fives Nonprofit Foundation, Truckee, CA, USA

Rating: 5 stars  

When I broke my back, a nurse in the ER told me to go to my happy place. I closed my eyes and pictures the ocean and began crying. My happy place, the place where everything where everything else melts away, the place that always brings me joy was now one giant inaccessible body of water. I didn’t know what to do. My happy place wasn’t happy anymore. It was a reminder of things I couldn’t do. I sat on the beach and stared at it for so many days feeling angry and sad all at the same time. It broke me to not be able to be in the one place that I knew would make me feel better. Then I found HighFives, and they had a way for me to get not only back in the ocean, but back on a surfboard. My eyes welled with tears the first time I was paddled out to the lineup, and for the first time in months I was filled with hope and happiness. It was like I was saying hi to a friend I hadn’t seen in a long time. It was pure joy and HighFives made it possible. There aren’t words for how grateful I am for not only bring the ocean back into my life, but for bringing hope back as well.

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