Know your dreams, fight for them, don’t expect everybody to support you and you will definitely achieve what you intend – that’s what I learned today 🙂

It’s 7 : 14  PM on day 513 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth,  pray, read Genesis 24 as part of my ongoing quest to learn more about the Bible,  drink tea by myself, feed myself oats for breakfast,   prepare and publish my Disability of the Day feature,   work,   feed myself rice and curry for lunch,   work some more, feed myself yoghurt and brush my teeth once more.

This morning my mom was pushing me to eat and drink something and I said life is not about eating or drinking something life is about changing the lives of others to which my dad said sarcastically of course it is I was so irritated but a few minutes later as if God/the universe was telling me I had the right idea I logged onto my Hotmail account to find an email written to me by Mallory – an eleven-year-old who I chose to be last week’s Kid of the Week for her work with her organization, Project Yesu – which read:

I read your blog and I think you are really cool. And you are right everyone can make a difference, thats where my motto of “Be The Change” came from. I’m just one kid, 11 years old (almost 12) and I am making a difference in the lives of children in Uganda. I love how you encourage people to step up, if you can do it and I can do it then anyone can do it. 🙂

Tell me more about you. I am in the 6th grade and am in Middle School. I attend Grace Community Church and really I’m a regular kid who loves a country I have never been to YET! Tell me about South Africa. My 5th grade teacher, last year taught in South Africa and when she would tell the class about it, I LOVED her stories, She is part of the reason I fell in love with Africa.

My family wants to adopt, and we are in the process of adopting 2 boys from Uganda, and you know what? they are special needs 🙂 Zeke had cerebral malaria and Josh is developmentally delayed.

I am so glad that you contacted me on Twitter!

Mallory

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!