Volunteer Profile: Kim Impact Story Volunteer Profile: Kim Shows Up By Naette Yoko Lee Share this naette.lee Wed, 02/18/2026 - 11:10 Meet Kim. If you ask her what she's doing today, the answer comes easily. "Whatever the director tells me," she says. That's how she approaches volunteering, by showing up and helping where she's needed. Kim is from one of the five Mississippi counties served by United Way of the Pine Belt Region. Like most United Way volunteers and staff, she's from the community she serves and understands its needs. She recognizes the quiet houses where someone may be choosing between heat and groceries. She knows there would be needs here even without a storm, and volunteering gives her a way to respond to that reality. A couple of weeks after Winter Storm Fern, there was still ice on the ground when a man rang the doorbell at the United Way office. He needed something to eat. "He's handicapped, fully disabled," Kim explains.…