The Unity One Movement Incorporated

🌞 The Rising SUNS of Sunnyside | Part 1 — Turning Trash into Treasure ♻️⚡
In this deeply moving 3-minute feature, the late Air Force Veteran and South Union Community Development President, Efrem Jernigan, shares a glimpse of his mission before undergoing cancer surgery, teaching us what it truly means to turn “trash into treasure.”

💬 “We receive solar panel donations from generous people who no longer have use for them,” Efrem says, standing proudly beside a solar panel ground mount installation of repurposed panels. “We use them to teach our students STEM education,” showing them that nothing is wasted, not even energy.
Symbolically and historically, Efrem Jernigan was the man who wrote and won the proposal for the 240-acre Sunnyside Solar Farm project in Houston back in 2019, a project that will transform a former landfill into a 52-megawatt renewable energy powerhouse.

🔄 The story then fast-forwards later that year after his surgery, showing Efrem, his student Charley, members of the South Union Community Development Corporation, and the Unity One Movement’s Executive Director arriving to pickup panels in Sugar Land, Texas. Their mission: to pick up a generous donation of over 50 solar panels and related equipment which is proof that his vision continued to grow, even as he battled cancer.

🚛 With a 20-foot trailer hitched and a community’s hope in tow, they load up the panels that will power new lessons, opportunities, and lives.
Efrem’s story is not just about energy, it’s about human energy: the power of giving, teaching, and transforming forgotten spaces and people into something radiant.

💡 Share this story. Honor his legacy. Help power what he started.