Quon, Renae
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Renae' Quon
Morgan Hill, California
Hello, my name is Renae' Quon and I live in a small town in Northern California just south of San Francisco and north of the Monterey Bay Peninsula with my husband and two beautiful daughters. I grew up in Minnesota and migrated to California when I was 17, my husband grew up in Boston, MA and migrated with his job General Electric to Oakland, California. I will complete my BS Degree in Human Services in December 2010 if I stay on the course that I am on now with taking 4 classes a quarter.
I work for a fortune 500 company in the Silicon Valley that is a manufacturer of Telecommunications networking equipment including bridges, routers, wireless technology, Telepresence and telephones. We are a company that believes in a balanced life style and believes in family, work and community. We spend a minimum of 8 hours a quarter helping out in the community cleaning up the bay, planting trees, harvesting fruit to feed the poor and homeless, and painting and repairing women and children's shelters. In addition to this my company will not only donate my 8 hours that I am volunteering but will also match my salary for those 8 hours and donate that money to that non-profit organization.
We attend a local church and are involved in every aspect of it. My family is also involved in a non-profit organization called Coppers Dream where we foster dogs that are ready to be euthanized in the local shelters. We foster them until we can find adoptive homes for them. Currently we are on our 5th dog in 6 months. Additionally, we are working with a non-profit organization called Dream Catchers where horses are used to help stroke victims regain their strength in their legs and arms through physical therapy. The patients are extremely happy working through extreme pain on the road to recovery. I am training our horses for this worthy cause. I am in the process of getting my own non-profit organization off the ground as well. It is called Trea’s Hope, we donate a blanket, stuffed animal and a book in a "survival kit" to the local police department and social workers in the community so they can have a kit in their cars when they are called out on a domestic violence call and when children are removed from the home the kids have something. The kids are given a kits so when they are placed into emergency foster care or a shelter they have something of their own to go with them. Normally kids are removed from their parents care with nothing but the clothes on their back and this helps to make their stay in foster care a little easier. We have currently donated about 75 kits to date.
In my spare time I work as a child advocate in the California courts system, volunteer with an organization called San Jose Neighbors that Care and spend time in the barn training my horses, camping, hiking, swimming or enjoying the great outdoors. But one of my passions is cheering for my local hockey team, The San Jose Sharks!
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