Experience in FEMA Corps puts things into perspective for K-M grad

Not many people can say that by the age of 23 they have traveled to 13 states, been deployed to five states, covered 20,000 miles and lived in almost 30 places all to help others. 
Travis Moret, 23, is one of 75 young people based in Sacramento, California who completed a 10-month term of service in the FEMA Corps, part of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC.) 
Moret grew up in the country south of Kasson and graduated from Kasson-Mantorville in 2010. He went on to get a degree in psychology from the University of Minnesota Morris. It was during his senior year of college he found his love for helping others.  
“I went on a one week service trip with Students Today Leaders Forever (STLF.) I traveled with 50 other students on a bus to Philadelphia, stopping in different states and sleeping in churches while doing different service projects in a different state each day,” he said. “I had a lot of fun traveling and volunteering. I had fulfilled my New Year’s resolution for that year (to give back), but I wanted more.” 
Moret searched online for volunteer opportunities and stumbled across the FEMA Corps, a program that was launched in 2012 as a partnership between FEMA and the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS.) Since the program’s inception, teams have responded to disasters in 29 states. The FEMA Corps is made up of 1,600 service members who are devoted solely to emergency management.