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Penny,
www.happychild.org.uk
Goethe said, "Whatever
you can do or dream you can, begin it"
(the rest of this quote is at
http://www.happychild.org.uk/acc/tpr/gtm/0299your.htm ).
Its words are very true. No matter what
limitations life seems to throw, or have thrown,
in your direction, people are often capable of
very much more than they realise.
Not everything
that you try will "work" - but you'll gain
experience from the things that don't, and at
least some of what you try to do will be
achievable. There's a Chinese proverb that says
something along the lines of "Aim
for the moon and you may get to the top of the
highest tree; aim only for the treetops and you
may never even get off the ground."
As Goethe says, "the
moment one definitely commits oneself, then
providence moves too. All sorts of things occur
to help one, that would never otherwise have
occurred. A whole stream of events issues from
the decision, raising in one's favour all manner
of unforseen incidents and material assistance,
which no man could have dreamed would have come
his way." I can vouch for the
truth of that. Over 17 years ago, on 1st April
1989, I had a "vision" of something that would
help children and would be called Project
HappyChild. No matter what I tried, nothing
"happened" and as a single parent with small
children of my own, and very little money, I
could see no way of it being brought about. Yet
my belief that it would one day "happen" never
wavered, and in late 1997 events started to move
in the right direction, and a very small website
was built for Project HappyChild early in 1998.
Since then, help has come in from across the
world (see page at
http://www.happychild.org.uk/fr/sponsors/index.htm ).
Today the Project
HappyChild website has over 16,000 pages and
receives around 50,000 page views each day.
It's not "finished" yet - around another four
years, probably - but it links children across
the world, provides free educational resources
and highlights the needs of disadvantaged kids
to enable funds to reach the organizations
working to help them. Yet this website has
evolved from a background of no spare money,
very little spare time and, I might say, no real
prior knowledge of computers or webpage
building!
If you want to do
something, just go for it, and trust. "From
tiny acorns, mighty oaks do grow."
You might need to plant more than one acorn :)
but what becomes possible may well surprise you.
Arnita Batra, Principal - Sardar
Dastur Primary and Nursery School
I extend my heartiest
congratulations to the Leaders team for conceptualizing the site namely
schoolsleaders.com. I see this site emerging as a trend setting
forerunner for many good things to come. I am very sure that this site can provide an
excellent platform for young student leaders from schools all over
the world to share their school experiences, novel activities and
any other additional fields of common mutual interest
Writing and sharing of
such experiences from a very diverse spectrum of students from
different cultures, countries can be a very enthralling and
enriching experience. This venture when undertaken by the young
students can really fire their imaginative engines and give them a
virtual experience beyond description. Also, this can help in
broadening their mantle horizons as they will be able to get a very
wide exposure.
I am quite positive in my
mind that young students from schools all over the world will
willingly come forward and share their thoughts on this site. I wish
all these young school students who become leaders a brilliant
success.
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