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Day 839

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The only way to know how far you’ve come is to look back– that’s what I keep learning 🙂

It’s  4 : 35 PM on day 839 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth ,feed myself an egg sandwich for breakfast, take off my shirt by myself, go to pick up my cousin at the airport,    stretch my hamstrings,   publish my Disability of the Day feature,  publish my Kid of the Week feature, feed myself rice and curry for lunch and play board games with family.

With 2012 coming to an end I thought I would share with you highlights of my year. Take a look:

My Year in Review

  1. Finally after two years I finished raising money to build a well – the well was completed on 21 June 2012 and now serves approximately 550 people in the Chemoset community in Kenya.
  2. Raised $252 for the World Food Programme through my 21 For 21 Campaign – I basically asked everyone I “knew” on Twitter to donate $21 in honour of my 21st birthday, they did and as a result the WFP had 1 008 more cups of food that they use to feed people.
  3. Raised $100 for Nothing But Nets as part of my  Mandela Day initiative – $100 = 10 bed nets that protect against Malaria again I asked people on Twitter to donate $10 or more.
  4. Completed my two years of blogging on 1 August 2012.
  5. Held down a full-job as a Social Media Manager for five months – I quit partly because I need more time to learn how to do things by myself so that I could be as independent possible.
  6. With the help of my online friends I got my life story featured in the October issue  of Longevity magazine – me being featured in a magazine was only a highlight of my year because I think it did quite a lot to raise Cerebral Palsy awareness.
  7. Learned to take off and put on a t-shirt by myself.
  8. Conceived and executed my Chain of Good competition idea – Catherine (@catvoncat) won the competition and I donated to her favourite charity, the 50/50 Project, just as I promised I would.
  9. Bought Christmas gifts for the kids in housekeeper’s neighbourhood with the money I earned while working – it felt so good to use the money I earned to buy Christmas gifts for kids who might not have had any.
  10. Made sandwiches for the people in our housekeeper’s neighbourhood as part of Virginia’s Sandwich Run.

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