Applauding the benefits of the Mirrors programme, graduate and volunteer Quinn White said: “I’m glad to see the residential back up and running, because education is key.”Mr White shared his Mirrors experience with The Royal Gazette to join a campaign supporting both the Mirrors residential programme — and the power of learning.The New Beginnings $1 Million Campaign is aimed at promoting both.Launched in April, the campaign supports education grants for young people who have graduated from personal development programmes.It is also a campaign to assist the Mirrors programme itself.“Mirrors is not something just for troubled people,” Mr White explained.“If you have something you want to do with your life, somewhere you want to go, Mirrors shows you how to get yourself there.”The 23-year-old can attest to the renewed focus on education that can arise from programmes such as Mirrors and Raleigh International.“There are a couple of guys I know from Mirrors who’ve who got their GEDs now and are moving on to bigger and better things.”Mr White does not characterise his time in Mirrors as a matter of “finding himself”.“It was about prioritising and organising,” he said.“I used to have bad organisation, but now I have these skills. Mirrors didn’t give that to me. I already had it. It just made me look at it from a different view.”He decided to participate in Mirrors in 2010, shortly before the untimely passing of his father Curtis.Mr White took part in the same programme that the $1 Million Campaign aims at reviving for Mirrors: the cohort residential for 19- to 24-year-old men.“My experience at Mirrors was different,” he recalled.“I always tell people Mirrors didn’t actually ‘do’ anything for me, except give me a better outlook on how to organise my life.”Driven by powerful ambitions, Mr White found his life snapping quickly into place once he understood how to direct his wishes.Determined to carry on the family tradition of baking, he also “always wanted to be an architect or engineer”.On December 28, 2010, his father died.“When I took my father to the hospital and he passed, I said I would never come back to the hospital again,” he said.“Two weeks later I got a phone call to come and work at the hospital. About four months after that, I was put in my dream job.”Mr White is now among the army of workmen building the new hospital at King Edward VII Memorial.“I work with the engineers,” he said. “I’m like their assistant, setting out the daily tasks.”A firm believer in the ability of dreams to come true, Mr White found the Mirrors programme worked well with his personal goals.“If people don’t want to go to college or be tradesmen, what is there for them to do? Where’s the place in Bermuda for innovators?” he said. “You’ve got to do it for yourself.“I love motivational speaking and with my own business I will show children that whatever you want, you can have. Most of the time, you really can’t depend on anybody but yourself.”Devastated at the loss of his father, Mr White admitted that for a long time he put his Mirrors goal of running a bakery on hold.Now he could have a licence for his business, known as devariòs delights, as early as next month.In the meantime, he looks forward to volunteering for the upcoming November residential for the Mirrors programme — which is urgently in need of more people to step forward and take part.To find out more about volunteering for Mirrors, call 294-9295.