Organizing the European Summit for Global Transformation… hmmm… what to say? People from all over the planet… from Poland, Latvia, Nepal, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Texas, New York, California, the Netherlands, Switzerland… and so many other places are coming. A young woman from Nepal who runs a free evening school for impoverished kids in Kathmandu wrote to me today that there is a paradigm shift bringing more urban poor into effective education. Yes, there is certainly a paradigm shift, and it is toward a lot more than just that.
That is the only way I can explain what is happening with the Summit. Ordinary people around the world are standing up and saying, “This shall be.” It shall be that people have clean drinking water and access to education and human rights… across the board for everyone.
And so by golly I can say THIS SHALL BE about this Summit. About Innocent Bajeneza and Mama Lucy making their first trips outside of Africa safely and without a hitch. And to raising funds for these 8 young women (below) to come. I have one week. It’ll take donations of plane seats or train fare, money for meals and hotel rooms. I have no idea how it’ll happen, but they are each deserving, motivated, award-winning champions of human rights and education for girls and women in their home countries and they are all in London at King’s College for just six months. They should be there and take what they learn and all the resources they encounter back to Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Ghana, Zimbabwe and Kenya.
Do you know how to help? We need several thousand dollars within one week. We will connect them with other changemakers from around the world, with fundraisers and support services galore. Working together we amplify all our impact.
From the left side at the back Myriam, Vicky, Shuvai, Debra and Toyin. From Left in the front: Selam, Saramba and Phidelia
