Voices

“I went to stay with my maternal uncle, but life there isn’t easy. His wife beats me with a stick for the least little thing. Sometimes I cry the whole day and ask what world this is I’ve come into.” 17-year-old girl in Togo.

Nelson Mandela om fattigdom

I anledningen af denne måneds tema: citater, kommer det mest sete indlæg på denne blog nogensinde igen. Det er blevet set, i skrivende stund (juni, 2013) 7303 gange og bare i løbet af i dag 24 gange.

Nelson Mandela sagde i en tale i London sommeren 2005, at: ”ligesom slaveri og apartheid er fattigdom ikke et naturligt fænomen. Det er skabt af mennesker og det kan elimineres af mennesker. Elimineringen af fattigdom er ikke godgørende, det er en handling i retfærdighedens navn. Det er en beskyttelse af en basal menneskerettighed, retten til værdighed og et anstændigt liv. Så længe fattigdom findes er der ikke sand frihed.”

Denne gang får I også den originale tekst med:

"Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. And overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life. While poverty persists, there is no true freedom."

Hele talen kan ses og læses her!

My favourite quotes

"Life is what you make it. Always has been always will be." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did so throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

"Always do right. This will gratify some people, astonish the rest." - Mark Twain

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." - Sir John Lubbock

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you." - Walt Whitman

"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett

"Blessed are those who can give without remembering and receive without forgetting." - Elizabeth Bibesco

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye." - Helen Keller

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." - Randy Pausch

"the greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot

DRØMME

Dette er et gammelt men meget populært indlæg fra 2009 som bliver udgivet igen i anledningen af at denne måneds tema er citater, jeg planlagde dette indlæg i juni og jeg burde meget gerne være i Kenya når dette indlæg udkommer, jeg vil prøve at finde ud af om de er kommet tættere på deres drømme.


Jeg besøgte Bondo i november 2009. Jeg var ude på vores venskabsskole. Jeg blev bekræftet i, at det er det rigtige sted vi hjælper. De har drømmene og de har viljen til at gøre alt for at nå dem - selvom oddsene er imod dem.

Her er nogle af deres drømme

My name is Linet Akoth. I am in standard seven. I am fourteen years old. I want to be a teacher in my future.

My name is Nicholas Odongo. I am 17 years old. I am in standard seven. I want to be a doctor.

My name is Erick Omondi. I am in std. 7. I would like to be a driver in my future. I am 15 years old.

My name is Melda Atieno. I am 14 years old. I want to be a nurse I my future. I am in class six.

My name is Eveline Akinyi. I am in standard six. I am eleven years old. I want to be a sister in my future.

My name is David Okoth. I am fifteen years old. I am in class seven. When I finish my school I want to be a mayor in my future.

My name is Matthews Ogundo. I am in standard seven. I am 15 years old. I would like to be an engineer in my future.

My name is Selestine Adhiambo. I am in standard seven. I am thirteen years old. I want to be a teacher in my future.

My name is Irine Akinyi. I am twelve years old. I am in standard six. When I grow up I want to be a lawyer.

My name is Gilliane Akelo. I am in standard six. I am twelve years old. When I grow up I want to be a teacher.

My name is Sharone Awuor. I am in standard six, I am thirteen years old. In my future I would like to be a journalist.

My name is Florence Aoko. I am in standard six, I am thirteen years old. I want to be a doctor in my future.

Perseverance

“It doesn’t matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.” - Charles Kettering

“It’s hard to beat the person who never gives up.” - Babe Ruth

"To create a little flower is the labour of ages." - William Blake

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on." - Robert Frost

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Fall seven times, stand up eight." - Japanese Proverb

"Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down." - Charles F. Kettering

"He conquers who endures." - Persius

"Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before." - Herodotus

"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Plan Foundraising countries slogans

Plan International and Plan Ireland: Promoting child rights to end child poverty.

Plan International USA: Promising futures, community by community.

Plan Australia: Let's tell a different story.

Plan UK: Working with the world’s poorest children so they can move themselves from a life of poverty to a future with opportunity.

Plan Begium: elk kind telt (Flemish) or chaque enfant compte (French) meaning every child matters.

Plan France: tendons la main aux enfants pour qu'ils puissent la lâcher meaning something along the lines of: reach out to children so that they can let go.

Plan Germany: gibt Kindern eine Chance meaning give kids a chance.

Plan India: there's a plan for every child.

Plan Italy: promuoviamo i diritti dei bambini per sconfiggere la loro poverta which means something along the lines of: promote the rights of children to overcome their poverty.

Plan Finland: usko lapsiin which might mean faith to children.

plan Norway: for og med barn which means for and with children.

Plan Sweden: För och med barn (same as Norway) for and with children.

Plan Netherlands: Girls first.

Plan Spain: paremos la pobreza infantil which means stop child poverty.

Plan Switzerland: les enfants changeront le monde (French) or mit Kindern die Welt verändern (German) which means children change the world or change the world with children.

There are more, either I could not find it or my knowledge of the language's letters was too limited, so if you can translate the one from Hong Kong, Japan or Korea, or if you can find or know the one from Canada, Denmark or Columbia or if you have better translations feel free to comment.

Courage

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” - E. E. Cummings

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." - C.S. Lewis

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow." - Mary Anne Radmacher

"The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity." - Rollo May

"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose." - Tom Krause

"If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything." - Win Borden

"Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful." - Mark Victor Hansen

"Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway." - Dr. Robert Anthony

"Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength. That takes courage." - Unknown

Quotes/slogans

Plan's work to promote child rights and lift millions of children out of poverty is based around 8 core areas: education, health, water and sanitation, protection, economic security, emergencies, child participation and sexual health, including HIV. With that comes the three main campaigns Because I am a Girl, Count Every Child and Learn Without Fear.

Over the next year one of these areas or campaigns will be the focus for one month each, as there are only eleven, I have chosen to make November something a little different.

The focus of November is quotes and slogans from Plan, children and other people around the world.