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Day 1573: Educate Generations Campaign Three Months Later

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“No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.” —Althea Gibson

 

It’s 12 : 58 PM on day 1573 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to  brush my teeth,  pray,  read Isaiah 58, publish my Disability of the Day feature, learn one new thing – did you know that lions may sleep up to 20 hours a day –  promote my Educate Generations campaign–  Meg Guegan who has donated once before donated $20 yesterday  (thank you Meg your ongoing support means a lot to me :)  – which brings my total raised to $1 335  only $1 165 more to raise to reach goal  – feed myself egg curry with bread for breakfast and go visiting.

 

Today marks the three month anniversary of my Educate Generations campaign benefiting the Malala Fund so far thirty people (including me) have made thirty-five donations totaling $1 335  I continue to be grateful for and humbled by the world’s support. Thank you Juliet Parrott-Merrell and Ann Blackburn-Pann, Nancy Scott, Meg Guegan, Ellen Seidman, Madalina Cristea, Bruce Sallan, Catherine Cook, Stan Faryna, Clare Donaldson, Barbara Royce, Duane Dell’Oca, Priya Thomas, Susan Mazza, Justina Valentine, Simon Magid, Emma Lambert, Sylvia Phillips, Nan Marvell, Nisa Thomas, Laurieann Janssens, Vincent Ang, Sarah Britten, Francoise Van Rheede and everyone else who chose to donate anonymously for your generous donations. Thank you Gaynor Young, Emma Lambert, Bruce Sallan, Stan Faryna, Marianne Tarkusep, Kelly Hengler,  Ashlyn Singh,  Cazanne’Z, Justina Valentine,  Chris Teller, Juliet Parrott-Merrell, Priya Buldeo, Alex Forshaw, Caryn Gootkin,Peter Herring, Simon Magid, Laurieann Janssens, @DoubleMartini, @itsanidealworld, Michael Carr, Diana Russo  and everybody else for helping spread the word about this campaign. ‏

 

[Update October 3 2015: Campaign over. Final total raised is $5 285]

Day 1542: Educate Generations Campaign Two Months Later

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Alone we can make a difference but together we can change the world– that’s what I keep realizing.

 

It’s 12 : 04 PM on day 1542 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, pray, read Isaiah 27,   publish my Disability of the Day feature, stretch my hamstrings,  feed myself a peanut butter sandwich and a banana for breakfast, promote my Educate Generations campaign– yesterday Anonymous donated $100 and Catherine Cook donated another $30 (thank you SO MUCH Anonymous and Catherine your support means the world to me 🙂 ) which brings my total raised to $1 070 only $1 430 more to raise to  reach goal – read and comment on Women in Tech: Meet Fiorenza Mella and continue promoting my campaign – still on $1 070 but I’m grateful for the progress made 🙂

 

Today marks the two month anniversary of my Educate Generations campaign benefiting the Malala Fund so far twenty-five people (including me) have donated to the campaign and between us we’ve donated $1 070 I am so grateful, happy and humbled by people’s support. Thank you Juliet Parrott-Merrell and Ann Blackburn-Pann, Nancy Scott, Meg Guegan, Ellen Seidman, Madalina Cristea, Bruce Sallan, Catherine Cook, Stan Faryna, Clare Donaldson, Barbara Royce, Duane Dell’Oca, Priya Thomas, Susan Mazza, Justina Valentine, Simon Magid, Emma Lambert, Sylvia Phillips, Nan Marvell, Nisa Thomas and everyone else who chose to donate anonymously for your generous donations. Thank you Sue Levy, Gaynor Young, Emma Lambert, Bruce Sallan, Stan Faryna, Marianne Tarkusep, Kelly Hengler,  Ashlyn Singh,  Cazanne’Z, Catherine Cook, Global Vision 11:11,  Justina Valentine, Sylvia Phillips, Chris Teller, Rachelle Friedman, Emmanuel Castis, Gerda, Katrina Moody,  Seema, Neethu Jacob  and everybody else for helping spread the word about this campaign. ‏

 

[Update October 3 2015: Campaign over. Final total raised is $5 285]

Day 1540: Forgoing Christmas Gifts for the Malala Fund

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Christmas is about Jesus and giving– that’s my message to the world.

 

It’s 12 : 21 PM on day 1540 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, pray, read Isaiah 25,   publish my Disability of the Day feature, promote my Educate Generations campaign– my friend, Nisa Thomas,  donated $40 today (thank you SO MUCH Nisa 🙂 ) which brings my total raised to $940 only $1560  more to raise to  reach goal – feed myself egg with bread for breakfast and continue promoting my campaign – still $1560 more to raise but I’m working on it I really need more people visiting the page the more people that visit the page the higher the probability of getting more donations crowd-funding is basically telling the story of why you are doing what you’re doing and getting people to pay attention.

 

Yesterday I decided to forgo all my gifts this Christmas and ask my family and friends to donate to my Educate Generations campaign benefiting the Malala Fund instead so if you were planning to get me a gift don’t I am fortunate enough to have everything I need and more rather visit www.classy.org/EducateGenerations and make a donation the Malala Fund will use the money raised to educate girls in Pakistan, Kenya, Nigeria and Jordan (to educate Syrian refugees).

Day 1512: Educate Generations Campaign One Month Later

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With God and a few like-minded friends great things are possible – that’s what I keep realizing 🙂

 

It’s 12 : 00 PM on day 1512 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, pray, read Song of Song 7, publish my Disability of the Day feature,  feed myself a peanut butter sandwich and a banana for breakfast and promote my Educate Generations campaign –  still on $770 but that’s okay the day is still young I’m sure I will find some generous people to support this very worthy cause I just hope I can do so before the power company shuts off our power (in South Africa we are going through this thing called load shedding the power company will basically switch off our electricity every day this week for a few hours a day to reduce the load on the system).

 

Today marks the one month anniversary of my Educate Generations campaign benefiting the Malala Fund so far seventeen people (including me) have donated to the campaign and between us we’ve donated $770 I am SO GRATEFUL and HAPPY. Thank you Juliet Parrott-Merrell and Ann Blackburn-Pann, Nancy Scott, Meg Guegan, Ellen Seidman, Madalina Cristea, Bruce Sallan, Catherine Cook, Stan Faryna, Clare Donaldson, Barbara Royce, Duane Dell’Oca, Priya Thomas and everyone else who chose to donate anonymously for your generous donations. Thank you Sue Levy, Verushka Ramasami, Gaynor Young,Rupasha Rampersad, Karmani Naidoo, Lee-Ann McDonald, Emma Lambert, Bruce Sallan, Stan Faryna, Marianne Tarkusep, Kelly Hengler, Sarah Britten, Lisa Varga, Ashlyn Singh, Wayne Mansfield, Laura Stanford, Michael Carr, Fiorenza Mella, Justina, Seema and everybody else for helping spread the word about this campaign. ‏

 

[Update October 3 2015: Campaign over. Final total raised is $5 285]

Day 1481: Educate Generations – My Campaign for the Malala Fund

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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela

 

It’s 2 : 07 PM on day 1481 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, go back to bed, pray, read Proverbs 19,     set up my Educate Generations fundraising page for the Malala Fund, make a donation to my Educate Generations campaign – I donated $100 hopefully others will follow in my footsteps – create the Educate Generations campaign and upload it to YouTube (watch it at the bottom of this post) – while making the video I realized my voice will never be completely clear and that my body will never be completely still and I was ok with that because that’s me 🙂 –  publish my Disability of the Day feature  and promote my campaign – still on $100.

 

This morning I started Educate Generations – a fundraising campaign benefiting the Malala Fund, an organization that empowers girls through education to achieve their potential and be agents of positive change in their communities – because I believe that when you educate a girl you educate generations my goal is to raise $2 500 in 12 months. For more information about Educate Generations or to make a donation please visit  and use #EducateGenerations when tweeting about this campaign.