World is a Book

Granada Street Kids

These pictures are of some of several activities that Granada Street Kids take action in. For example, distributing food, mostly rice and beans, to the poorest families in the Pantanal Barrio, the barrio where the kids in the Daycare center live.

Granada Street Kids Fundraiser

Thanks to everyone who participated we raised almost 800 dollars to send to Escuela Nueva Vida to support their school.

1946 Today

UN general assembly created UNICEF

Surround Yourself

“Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself.”

—	Edmund Lee

Happiness

Fundraiser

IT'S FRIDAY The last day of the first week of fundrasing. It has been such a success, we have been basically making one hundred dollars a day!! So one more week left!!

1st Day

1st Day

This is a picture of me (center) and my Senior Seminar teachers, Mr. Sahd and Mrs. Schober.

Senior Seminar is a class made up of several seniors in my high school who choose a project based on their interests and Granada is a part of my project. For two whole periods a day students work on their projects. It's a great experience going to school and going to all your regular classes, and then at the end of the day you work on a project that you love. I believe that every high school student should be given this opportunity.

Today was the first sale at lunches..

Then the future will be bright

Quote November 29

When you are doing something you truly love, you produce an endless flow of energy from within your heart that gives you the ability to accomplish anything

Quote November 27

"We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost"
Ray Bradbury

Granada Fundraiser

I am extremely excited for my package to come, full of Granada jewelry and bags. I am more experienced this year in selling these bracelets that I feel it will more successful. The fundraiser starts next week!
To learn more about Granada or would like to make your own fundraiser go to Granada Street Kids

Wise Words

Project Unbreakable

Peacemakers

"The Planet does not need more 'succesful people'. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds. It needs people to live well in their places. It needs people with moral courage willing join the struggle to make to world habitable and humane and these qualities have little to do with success as our culture is the set."

Quote of the day; November 7

“We must Learn to Live
Together as Brothers,
Or Perish Together
As Fools.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Be Thankful

India Water Crisis - Environmental Action Project

Granada Street Kids Day Care

Recently Granada Street Kids "Escuela Nueva Vida" opened a daycare. Here are some beautiful pictures of the day care. If you would like to learn more about Granada Street kids, help, or even donate take a look at their webiste Granada Street Kids

Thank you

Special thanks to Kathryn Mikus, and my teacher Mrs. Schober for helping put Granada Street Kids posters all throughout Lancaster Catholic High School.
The posters ask for supplies that Escuela Nueva Vida needs and the coming sale in December!

Reflection

Recently we have experienced the tragic destruction of hurricane Sandy, and it is time to reflect on the way we treat our world. We have the opportunity of making our world beautiful, clean, and healthy again.
There are many ways that you can participate on making a change in our enviroment. An example are shoes made out of tires; tires that end up in landfills. For every two pairs of shoes you  purchase you take action in making piece of land beautiful again. To see these shoes or other products like these go to roozt.com

For more eco-friendly products browse through Roozt .  You will see several ways that you can help while making a statment.

The Yellow Bird Project

THE YELLOW BIRD PROJECT  

The yellow bird project is all about working with an amazing range of indie rock musicians to create unique t-shirt designs that benefit an array of charities, each chosen by the musicians.

 

SOME SHIRTS.....

          BON IVER 

This shirt provides a window of hope to the abused women and children supported by the Interval House.

 

     MAGIC NUMBERS

by purchasing this shirt, you can help save literal Red Rabbits, by supporting the Nature Conservancy.

 

take a look at the other shirts made by several awesome bands that support awesome charities at The Yellow Bird Project

Quote of the day; October 23

"I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life of meaning. All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone woud help us."

                                                                                         Angelina Jolie

GSK & Love 146

I am happy to say that I will be hosting another school sale of Granada Street Kids friendship bracelets this December. The proceeds go to Escuela Nueva Vida, a school in Nicaragua. This school takes boys from the street, away from poverty, and shows them how to live a better life away from danger.


 Visit their website at Granada Street Kids

I also plan to work with Love 146 a charity that supports the end of sex trafficking and exploitation.
I will work with a club at my school called Crusaders Against Sex Trafficking (C.A.S.T.) and I plan to raise money for the cause.

To learn more about Love 146 and hear the beautiful story about how they got their name visit their website:  Love 146


 

Senior Seminar Video

Follow These Rules...

Ghandi's Top 10 Fundamentals for Changing the World

1. Change yourself
2. You are in control
3. Forgive and let go
4. Without action you aren’t going anywhere
5. Take care of this moment
6. Everyone is human
7. Persist
8. See the good in people and help them
9. Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self
10. Continue to grow and evolve

PEACE

Stand Out

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide T...

Half the Sky

  

                                                                        

  

MANTRASTYLE

Customizable, eco-friendly products that reflect your unique style. 10% goes towards local safe houses for victims of human trafficking
                                                                                                        source: ROOZT

Quote of the Day; September 26

         "When I asked God for strength, He gave me difficult situations to face.
          When I asked God for brain & brown, He gave me puzzles in life to solve.
          When I asked God for happiness, He showed me some unhappy people.
          When I asked God for wealth, He showed me how to work hard.
          When I asked God for favors, He showed me opportunities to work hard.
          When I asked God for peace, He showed me how to help others.
          God gave me nothing I wanted, He gave me everything I needed."
                                                                                                          Swami Vivekananda

Quote of the Day; September 21

 

"The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences."

                                                                     Eleanor Roosevelt

CHARLIZE

 

CHARLIZE THERON

• Theron is involved in women right's organizations, and has marched in pro-choice rallies.

• Theron also is a supporter of animal rights and active member of PETA. She appeared in a PETA ad for its anti-fur campaign.

• She is a supporter of same-sex marriage and attended a march to support that in Fresno, California, on 30 May 2009. She is a gay rights activist and refuses to get married until same sex marriage is legal in the United States. "I don't want to get married because right now the institution of marriage feels very one-sided, and I want to live in a country where we all have equal rights," Theron said. "I think it would be exactly the same if we were married, but for me to go through that kind of ceremony, because I have so many friends who are gays and lesbians who would so badly want to get married, that I wouldn't be able to sleep with myself." In a June 2011 interview on Piers Morgan Tonight, she stated "When government starts to tell us who can love and what is good love… I do have a problem with that. I do have a problem with the fact that our government hasn’t stepped up enough to make this federal, to make [gay marriage] legal. I think everybody has that right.”

• In July 2009, Theron's Africa Outreach Project (CTAOP) announced a coalition with LAFC Soccer Club to give soccer fields to rural areas in South Africa. The US youth soccer club LAFC Chelsea made a three-year commitment to help build a community-wide soccer program for the schools in the Umkhanyakude district, encompassing uniforms, equipment, professional training for local coaches, referees and administrators, and health education.

• In December 2009, CTAOP and TOMS Shoes partnered to create a limited edition unisex shoe. The shoe was made from vegan materials and inspired by the African baobab tree, the silhouette of which was embroidered on blue and orange canvas. Ten-thousand pairs were given to destitute children, and a portion of the proceeds went to CTAOP.

                                                                                 SOURCE: Wikipedia Charlize Theron

AUDREY

                                                         AUDREY HEPBURN

          Today it’s no longer a matter of ignorance, nor politics, nor economics,but of human will and love.

 They say each new generation offers man another chance. And there you are, our new generation; our hope for the future. Why are you our hope for the future? Because you have purity of heart, which so often time and age has obscured in us. But also, you have the knowledge today, which we did not. [...] Until now, until this time of unprecedented change, a time when all the world is finally aware of the fragility of our beautiful planet, of our need for each other, of the needs of our children, of our need for you.

                                                                                                    SOURCE: The Girl who Stole the Eiffel Tower (blog)

Say No to Violence

SAY NO TO VIOLENCE- TAKE-ACTION
Click on this link if you are in support to end violence against women
You can make change happen
Violence against women and girls is a problem of pandemic proportions. Based on country data available , up to 70 per cent of women experience physical or sexual violence from men in their lifetime – the majority by husbands, intimate partners or someone they know.

KATAVI

KATAVI
For every item purchased, KATAVI will bring sun protection to someone in need

                                                           "BE SAFE, HELP OTHERS"

Katavi was founded under the simple notion that everyone deserves proper sun protection. The sunscreen industry is dominated by major global pharmaceutical companies who are purveying inferior products and swimming in profit, while others suffer. Our mission is to provide consumers with a higher-quality sunscreen combined with a greater social purpose.

                                                 At Katavi, it’s nature versus nature.

                                                                                                        SOURCE: ROOZT.COM

Granada Street Kids

Picture they sent me holding a sign that says, "Gracias Lancaster Catholic"

The colorful bracelets 

 There is a school located in Nicaragua called "Escuela Nueva Vida," who take boys from the street that are suffering from extreme poverty, they are "Granada Street kids." These boys are taken in from the streets and offered a better life full of hope.
I helped these boys last year, it was my first ever project. They sent me hundreds of bracelets to sell. I sold them at my school, Lancaster Catholic HS, and it was a big success with sending them 600 dollars. Each bracelet was 5 dollars and had the name and picture of the boy who made it.
This was a huge experience for me, at the end it felt so satisfying. To this day during school, I randomly look around and see some people still wearing their bracelet. I smile because it makes me so happy that they are still appreciating it.
A couple days later when I sent the rest back, people were still asking me if they could purchase a bracelet, I knew I had to keep doing this project. And this year I will send more to help these boys.
If you want to know more about Granada Street Kids go to granadastreetkids.com

Casa De Ancianos

That is me on the right sitting in "casa de ancianos" a nursing home in EL Salvador. Both my parents are from El Salvador, and we try to visit every two years. We just started coming to this nursing home a couple years ago. We give these ladies a nice meal and some gifts. They get so excited when we come and visit them, that we do this project every time we visit.