National Volunteer Week Kicks Off with Profile of NPH USA Midwest Volunteer Claire Edelman

All this week, in observance of National Volunteer Week, we will be featuring some of the many, many people who give so much of themselves for the children of NPH. Meet Claire Edelman, NPH USA Midwest volunteer currently at NPH Honduras. Enjoy!

Name: Claire Edelman

Hometown: Indianapolis, IN

NPH Home: Rancho Santa Fe, NPH Honduras

Volunteer Position: Visitor Coordinator and Chicas Poderosas (Powerful Girls) Coordinator

Name one celebrity you would love to introduce to NPH: Neil Patrick Harris, because whenever you Google NPH you get him!

Favorite Honduran food: Gringa, it’s like a quesadilla with veggies.

Favorite spot at Rancho Santa Fe: Padre’s porch.

Favorite NPH moment so far: Tie-dying shirts with my girls when my mom came to visit. They all wear them and I can see them coming from far away. It also makes my day when they call my name from afar to say hello.

What do you nerd out on the most at NPH: My girls!

One word to describe your experience at NPH: Family.

Tell us something we don’t know about you: I’m a hog wrestler. My friends and I won the Boone County Fair hog wrestling contest. No hogs were harmed in this activity.