Emanuel's message to the LA students

Some of you already know about the young boy from Sudan that I met in Paris at the United Nations conference. His name is I Emmanuel, and he spoke at the UN conference about the value of education. He lives in a place where education is hard to come by and there are a great deal of challenges because of that.

I hope you will all learn and be inspired by Emmanuel as I have been.

He is very interested in getting to know the students in Los Angeles.

I asked him what message he has for the LA students and here's what he said:

"I would like to share with students in LA that education in our world now is the key to everything. Because the world is now like a small hut, closed and the key is education.
and the key is held by the the educated young people now. Shield because young people are right in every State...and Ideals live on in this new, young President of the USA. This evidence that young people strive for the development of education experience and awareness of others."

(Kelly 11/11/08...quoting Emmanuel from Sudan)

I am so grateful!

I am so grateful for Amanda Addison, Melinda Woolf, Ms. Demowa and Ms. Zembrano!

Amanda and Melinda went to Nimitz yesterday and worked with the kids...I was so blown away with the report I received from them...the theme of the day was reinterpreting the Millennium Development Goals in an affirmative way.  

They came up with a way of framing the MDGs that were so empowering...really visionary...I will be posting what they wrote in one of my next posts.

The kids came up with a game show idea as a way of teaching and learning about the MDGs...as well as a play.  Stay tuned...

(Kelly...11/11/08)

The Challenge

Today is election day...and I would love to pose a challenge to you today and everyday (see below.)

In my experience (and I know there is scientific evidence to back this up) our thoughts effect reality...soooo instead of worrying about what might go wrong...why not channel your creative, manifesting energy into imagining/dreaming/visioning what you would like to see, feel, experience.

Here's the challenge:

Take 30 seconds right now. Close your eyes and imagine exactly what our country will feel like. It takes so many of us to make up all the world. If enough of us have it, we will have the then be able to have us all. We don't have to have the ones that we had when we let the Bush have us the ones imagine how good it will feel. So what you want to have for the futured. All of us need to put into the matrix what we want the world to be like.

Imagine successful diplomacy.

Imagine peace and restored prosperity.

Imagine the citizen groups, progressive populism, social justice, and the grassroots finding their voice.

Imagine windmills and clean cars and new kinds of suppressed technology.

Imagine the earth being healed and revitalized, with everyone being brothers.

Imagine being very proud of your country and its leaders. Imagine whatever it is that draws you to support change. Imagine what your life will look like.

Just 30 seconds. Do it several times a day. We can shift and change the vibration of this country with positive visions just like this.

See it...Feel it...breathe it...Pass it on. Let us...remember... all of the wonderful reasons we appreciate this reality and our part in helping to build it.

Kelly 11/4/08

Kicking it off!

Last week kicked off the official beginning of the Dream Project '08-'09 school year. Last Monday I met fifty sixth graders at Nimitz Middle School in East Los Angeles with Miss Demowa and Ms. Zembrano's combined classes.

WOW! I was so impressed with the enthusiasm, participation, and level of awareness of these 6th graders! I asked the students, "Who knows what the United Nations is?" Half the hands in the room shot right up in the air. I called on one enthusiastic boy seated in the back row who answered, "The United Nations is where representatives from every country around the world meet to work out their differences and come up with solutions to make the world better."

I was flabbergasted...who are these kids? Were they prepped before I walked in? They couldn't have been...this was their first day of school!

We are doing something new this year that I've been looking forward to since we began...and that is bringing in mentors...students that previously went through the program to support the kids that are just getting started. Eigth graders, Karla, Mayra, Jacob, and Michael showed up to dazzle the 6th graders with their leadership skills. I couldn't have been more proud.

Then on the following day, we ventured over to Van Nuys to initiate day one of the Dream Project with Crossroads High School. There are definitely some bright stars in that group. There was a young man named Money (a nickname I'm sure) who shook my hand at the end of class and volunteered to be the point person for the class. He said that he has been DJ since the age of seven and will put a music track together so the Crossroads students can create a Millennium Development Goal rap song.

Thank you Rudy for being our fearless camera man, and thank you Amanda for being my wonderful assistant! (p.s. Amanda is going to West Africa through the Peace Corps in June and will be taking the Dream Project with her...she is an angel!)

I feel truly blessed to have such great support behind the scenes from our LA and Santa Fe based team--Dana and Steve!

Needless to say, I am very excited about what will take place this year...stay tuned!

Kelly