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Day 2643: KFC’s Add Hope Campaign, Recognizing Opportunities and Knowing Your Values

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Opportunities to do good are everywhere you just have to be observant – that’s my message to the world.

 

It’s 2 : 15  PM on day 2643 of my journey towards independence and I managed to watch TV with my sister,  pray,  read Genesis 49:9-10, have breakfast, go with my parents to drop my sister at the airport – she’s off to a wedding for the weekend – and promote my 50 New Feet Campaign benefiting MiracleFeet -raised $4 976 only $7 524 more to raise by June 17, 2018 to help 50 kids with clubfoot (thanks to everyone who has helped out so far).

 

Yesterday my sister, my brother, my niece (cousin’s daughter) and I were at KFC and I once again noticed the “Add Hope” signage – in every KFC in South Africa customers have an option to pay extra to help feed hungry kids – and my sister turned to me knowingly and asked how many kids do you want to feed? to which I replied three – one for every Varghese present – sometimes you don’t have to go out of your way to make a difference sometimes the opportunities are right in front of your eyes but in order to recognize them you need to know who you are and what your values are (I know I am a Varghese and I know I stand for kindness, generosity, compassion, honesty, loyalty, justice and fairness and I carry that with me every moment of every day)

Day 2341: “Kids Caught Doing Good”

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“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.” – Amelia Earhart

 

It’s 11 :  43 AM on day 2341 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray, have breakfast read John 13:34 and learn a new word –Definitions for whiffler 1. a person who frequently shifts opinions, attitudes, interests, etc. 2. a person who is vacillating or evasive in an argument. (politician could be a synonym for this word LOL 🙂  )

 

A few days ago I watched “Kids Caught Doing Good” it touched me to the core of my being. Watch “Kids Caught Doing Good” below:

 

Day 425

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Always follow your first instinct – that’s what I learned today 🙂

It’s 7: 26 PM on day 425 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself pancakes with coconut and sugar for breakfast, drink coffee by myself, prepare and publish my Disability of the Day feature, tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign – Chrissy (@ChrissyPappas) made another donation but this time it amounted to $111.11 in celebration of the 1’s (thanks Chrissy :)) if anybody out there can top that I will put up a banner of their website and link to it (unless the website contains porn or violence) on my Sponsors of my Campaign page – help my brother study for his exam –did you know they now teach marketing in fifth grade as part of Economic Management Science (EMS) a lot has changed since my fifth grade days LOL :)–  feed myself a chicken nugget sandwich for lunch,  work on this blog, feed myself spaghetti with sauce for dinner and brush my teeth once more.

Yesterday I received a message from Kurtiss (@kurtissl) which read in part thanks Nisha, this is a great concept, I won’t sign up b/c I have no idea how to accomplish something like this. – I had asked him if he would be willing to participate in Make A Difference Before Christmas – after I read that I realized that I should have given people ideas on how they could make a difference when I first wrote the post about Make A Difference Before Christmas (I thought about doing it but then I second guessed myself and decided against it) so to remedy that I have compiled a list of things you can do both with and without money to make a difference. Take a look:

10 Ways You Can Make a Difference Without Breaking the Bank

1. Click to give – there are websites on the World Wide Web (the one’s I visit daily are Bhookh and The Hunger Site) where all you have to do is log on and click (sponsors pay for your click).

2. Instead of “googling” when searching – use Good Search and these guys will make a donation to Spreading Joy. (Use the link above that will take you there)

3. Thank a Police Officer today (hopefully NOT while you are getting a ticket!)

4. Hold a yard sale and donate half of the proceeds

5. Baby sit for a friend/neighbor for free.

6. Serve a meal at a homeless shelter or women’s shelter

7. Mentor someone – have you started your own business? Are you an expert in a certain field? Share that talent!

8. Smile at everyone you come in contact with today.

9. Offer to let someone ahead of you in line.

10. Donate blood.

11. Give a handwritten note of encouragement.

12. Start a Gratitude Journal – leave it out for others to see as they visit you.

13. Call someone who is not feeling well and talk until you make them laugh.

14. Visit with the elderly or someone who can no longer get out as much as they’d like.

15. Give a thank you card to someone who has made a difference in your life.

16. Run errands for a new Mom (or someone that is sick)

17. Pick up trash you see as you are.

18. If you have money to spare donate to my campaign, the United Nations World Food Programme or Kids Caring 4 Kids.

(Note: In the list above 2-17 are courtesy of http://newsblaze.com/story/20101123103825toms.nb/topstory.html)

Are we connecting on Twitter? If not, say hi at http://twitter.com/Nisha360

If you’ve given to my cause or you can’t give now, please help me by sharing my cause with others. You can tweet about it like my friend Stan Faryna. This is the tweet he uses: @Nisha360 is a brave, smart young woman trying to make a better world for us all. Please help her do an amazing thing. http://bit.ly/hC7vOu

Stan’s very sweet for saying so, but feel free to write what reflects you best.

Thanks to all my friends out there who are helping me make my dream come true: to make a better world for all of us!

Day 423

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Small Actions X Lots of People = BIG CHANGE ~ Unknown

It’s 6: 23 PM on day 423 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, drink coffee by myself, prepare and publish my Disability of the Day feature, give our housekeeper computer lessons–she told me a few weeks ago that she would love to learn how to use a computer so I offered to teach her although I hadn’t had the time to do it until today – feed myself rice and curry for lunch, listen to music – I LOVE The Script their songs are about things we all go through – and  tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign – no luck.

Last night I was watching the 7 o’clock News on which they showed  the Make A Wish Foundation handing out teddy bears to kids in the oncology unit as part of their Show You Care initiative ahead of the festive season and a few hours later with that as inspiration I came up with Make A Difference Before Christmas –an event in which everybody participating has to do one good deed a day until Christmas Day – Tiffany (@TyphannieBieber) and Cindy (@notjustagranny) already agreed to participate (thanks guys) if you’d like to join them fill in the following form:

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Are we connecting on Twitter? If not, say hi at http://twitter.com/Nisha360

If you’ve given to my cause or you can’t give now, please help me by sharing my cause with others. You can tweet about it like my friend Stan Faryna. This is the tweet he uses: @Nisha360 is a brave, smart young woman trying to make a better world for us all. Please help her do an amazing thing. http://bit.ly/hC7vOu

Stan’s very sweet for saying so, but feel free to write what reflects you best.

Thanks to all my friends out there who are helping me make my dream come true: to make a better world for all of us!