JamesEd.com » kabul http://jamesed.com Make Education Worth the Time Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:24:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Get on With Things Part Two http://jamesed.com/2011/01/get-on-with-things-part-two/ http://jamesed.com/2011/01/get-on-with-things-part-two/#comments Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:00:09 +0000 James http://jamesed.com/?p=1237

10,000 Women is a five-year investment by Goldman Sachs to provide 10,000 undeserved women around the world with a business and management education.

What does it take to change a community?

What does it take to change a person?

As it turns out little more than giving that person, who wants to change, the opportunity to realize their aspirations.

Goldman Sachs has taken its research and financial muscle and pledges to help those women that need help the most get off the treadmill of despair and move forward with their lives.

What a great collection of stories.

I had the opportunity to speak with Tamara Myatt in Kabul Afghanistan about the 10000 women initiative as she is seeing it on the ground.

Real change, real caring, real hope.

And it all happens by giving people a chance.

I came away from talking with Tamara wondering, again, what I could do to translate the lessons learned from the project and Tamara herself to my live and my minuscule sphere of influence.

The reality is simple.

We all have an opportunity to do something, anything, no matter how big or small to make our environment a better place.

The question is are we willing and ready t stand up to out responsibility?

It is much easier to say I am too busy or I can’t do anything or my ideas are silly or make some other excuse.

But as Tamara shared with us the smallest action can make a profound change for many people not only on a personal level but a community and maybe even national level.

Change starts with us!

What is that saying, be the change you want to see!

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Last night I met Natalie Carney on Nightline and wow what a story!

From Facebook to YouTube this woman is really bent on bringing a face to the forgotten victims in Afghanistan, the orphaned children.

How do we make a difference?

By doing something!

Listen to the conversation last night.

And beyond sending 2 tonnes of clothing and toys what are Natalie and her friends doing?

They have created a calender, a beautiful calender of head shots of the orphans they have met and they are using that vehicle to raise badly needed funds to help create change in a particular place and time in Afghanistan.

Imagine if we all JUST DID one little thing for a cause we believe in!

Imagine! And now go find your love and do something, anything, right now.

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