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Day 1874: Don’t forget the Saharawi people

Be grateful for all that you have some people are not so fortunate – that’s my message to the world.

 

It’s  12 :  14  PM on day 1874 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, pray,  read Acts 19, publish my Disability of the Day feature, publish my Kid of the Week feature, learn one new thing –Slavish [slav·ish] adj. Showing no originality; blindly imitative: “A slavish copy of the original work.” –  have breakfast and hang out with my family.

 

This morning I was thinking about the Western Sahara and the Saharawi people – the Western Sahara has been illegally occupied by Morocco for the past FORTY YEARS which forced the Saharawi people to seek refuge in south-west Algeria – I cannot imagine what it’s like for the Saharawi people they have lived in those tents for forty years basically cut off from the rest of the world with just enough food to survive and hope that they will one day return to their home it’s just not fair that some people have to live in such unliveable conditions while the rest of us sleep on comfy beds and have more than enough of everything to survive and thrive. To the U.N and the African  Union: PLEASE put more pressure on Morocco to leave the Western Sahara. To the rest of us: Let’s raise some hell on behalf of the Saharawi people they have suffered for forty years too long. Special thanks to my hero without a cape Catherine Constantinides who takes every opportunity to tell the world about the Saharawi people after having spent ten days with them in the refugee camp (dude you rock I love you to the moon and back).

 

To raise awareness about the plight of the Saharawi people please share Gareth Cliff’s interview with Catherine Constantinides far and wide

Day 1814: Me, Love and a Lemon Tree

Love is not something that is earned it’s something that is given to you freely all you can do is accept it with grace and try to put a fraction of it back into the world – that’s what I am beginning to realize.

 

It’s 12 : 56 PM on day 1814  of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to read Luke 4,    publish my Disability of the Day feature,    have breakfast,  learn one new thing –It would take hundreds of thousands of moons to equal the brightness of the sun.The full moon shines with a magnitude of -12.7, but the sun is 14 magnitudes brighter, at -26.7.  The ratio of brightness of the sun versus the moon amounts to a difference of 398,110 to 1.– pray,  and promote my Educate Generations campaign – $4 710 raised  so far with only 31 days to go. Can we get to $5 000? (she asks with no shame LOL 🙂 ).

 

Yesterday being Spring Day Catherine Constantinides planted a lemon tree in my honour (thanks so much Catherine it’s one of the sweetest things anybody has ever done in my name in my 24 years of life [see Catherine’s tweet about the lemon tree below] ) often I see the world’s generosity and love towards me and I wonder what I ever did to deserve it but I’m beginning to realize that love is not something that is earned it’s something that is given to you freely all you can do is accept it with grace and try to put a fraction of it back into the world.