I found this amazing video on YouTube.
It is a cute little girl sharing her dreams.
I've listened to it several times and it makes me emotional and hopeful at the same time. I wanted to share it with you.
(Video and transcript below the fold)
I'm here for other children
I'm here because I care
I'm here because children everywhere are suffering and because forty thousand people die each day from hunger.
I'm here because those people are mostly children.
We have got to understand that the poor are all around us and we are ignoring them.
We have got to understand that these deaths are preventable.
We have got to understand that people in the Third World countries think and care and smile and cry just like us.
We have got to understand that they are us. We are them.
My dream is to stop hunger by the year 2000.
My dream is to give the poor a chance.
My dream is to save the forty thousand people who die each day.
My dream can and will come true if we all look into the future and see the light that shines there.
This girl went on a mission to fulfill her dream
She hasn't yet succeeded in her cause.
But she will.
She will be thirty years old this Friday.