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| My beautiful and inspiring friend Hayley Gill, setting out for Cambodia later on this year to make a change! |
We both work at a really lovely nursery, where the kids have the best environment - with tons of toys, loads of creative things to do, yummy food (& lots of it!) and a great outdoor area they can explore safely. We are also privileged enough to be on the site of a five star hotel, so when we take the children on walks, they're surrounded by beautiful plants and landscaping, and lovely buildings.
Hayley has worked at other primary schools and nurseries in this country & having realised how lucky they are, and how other children don't get these kinds of chances, she's taken the enormous step of deciding to do something about it. I think that's something we can all be inspired by.
She's going away to Cambodia later on this year for three weeks of volunteering for FutureSense Foundation - an organisation focused on providing poverty relief. Their approach is reassuringly bottom-up - rather than giving money to the government and waiting for it to trickle down to the people who really need it (an enterprise requiring more faith in government than I have!), they go straight out into the field and tackle problems head on by improving education, child welfare and livelihoods. By doing this, they give people the power to create a better life for themselves and break out of poverty.
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| Let's help make their schools as beautiful & inspiring as the scenery. |
If you want to donate, all the money is going towards helping others, and the website is totally secure and safe.
Even if you can't afford it, it's something worth thinking about - what causes are you passionate about? It's made me realise how many times I've stated that something's wrong, or that I don't like the way something's being done, but I've not actually stood up and done something about it.
Be inspired by the fantastic opportunity Hayley's taking to change an injustice. We're all as powerful as we decide to be - opportunities for change are all around us, we've just got to open our eyes and see them, and then take them. Remember that you can do it - don't think other people who are more powerful, more influential, more 'go-getting' or more confident than you are more suited to the task - you can be the change you want to see in this world.
Let's all be inspired by Hayley's wonderful project. Give whatever you can, or take the opportunity to think about what you'd like to do.
Enjoy today!!
- Emily x
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