Residents and employees at One Hope United in Lake Villa, Ill., are enjoying a spruced up campus thanks to volunteers from NorStates Bank.

Ten employees from the Waukegan, Ill.-based bank visited the 33-acre campus this month, weeded the garden, filled flower boxes with flowers and painted the exterior trim on Richardson House.

The Lake Villa residential facility is home to 22 boys, ages 10 to 18 years old, who have experienced abuse and neglect and need assistance before moving back with their own family or into a foster home.

NorStates Bank is a valued partner of One Hope United. The bank is sponsoring the Northern Region’s golf outing and will send 12 volunteers to assist at the event. NorStates Bank also partners with us in our gift-giving program, which provides gifts for children during the winter holidays.

Pictured, L to R: NorStates Bank volunteers Colleen Zawaski; Pat Hays; Arely Alvarez; Desrie Flaschner; Keiry Carballo; Shelly Christian; Uin Gallegos; Fred Mutter; Diana Henkel; and Olga Quiroga