This is part of our celebration of Pay it Forward.
Visit stophungernow.com to see videos about our initiative.(e partner with stophungernow to get the food where it needs to go)
Bedford Rotary packaged 48,000 meals for school children in Haiti who have very little to eat. They eat mud pies to fill their bellies.
This is part of our celebration of Pay it Forward. Visit stophungernow.com to see videos about our initiative.(e partner with stophungernow to get the food where it needs to go)
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All BHS Seniors had the option to participate in the BHS fashion show, however only some filled out the profile, went for the fitting and attended the rehearsal, and had the hutspa to strut their stuff on stage.
Check out Jackie Pinney @about 4:25 and Evelina @56:30 Gorgeous! sparkling! a joy to watch! They were naturals! 'Ogooglebar' ... and 14 Other Swedish has proven particularly adept at inventing new words for new tech.
We were very excited to attend this special event. It was planned on the 25th anniversary of the acceptance of women in Rotary! Befoire that women were not allowed in Rotary. There were several speakers: Author Razia Jan Razia’s Ray of Hope is a nonprofit organization that empowers Afghan girls and young women through community-based education in the district of Deh’Subz.Our organization and our school were founded in the belief that education is key to positive, peaceful change for current and future generations — and that we must provide girls and young women the education and resources necessary to work toward brighter futures, in their own villages and beyond. "Our flagship project is the Zabuli Education Center, an all-girl K-12 school that provides free, exemplary education to more than 430 students. The founder of our school and foundation is Afghan nativeRazia Jan, a CNN Top 10 Hero and tireless humanitarian. Our immediate goal is to add 50 students per year to our current program until the Zabuli Education Center reaches its full capacity of 650 students. The Razia's Ray of Hope Foundation will fully support the school in perpetuity by eventually setting up a sustainability endowment. The philosophy of education and school-building employed by Razia’s Ray of Hope Foundation and the Zabuli Education Center has proved remarkably effective. It is our intent to use our school as a model to expand into neighboring villages. There is a desperate need for quality, free education in Afghanistan, a need that the public school system is decades away from fulfilling. We will continue to meet this need on an ever-increasing scale." FInd out more about how you can help! https://raziasrayofhope.org/ Razia dreams of getting an education, but in her small village in Afghanistan, girls haven't been allowed to attend school for many years. When a new girls' school opens in the village, a determined Razia must convince her father and oldest brother that educating her would be best for her, their family and their community. Razia's Ray of Hope is the latest inspiring story from the CitizenKid collection. It is based on the true stories of the students of the Zabuli Education Center for Girls just outside of Kabul, founded by a generous and resourceful woman named Razia Jan, a CNN hero, who also appears in the story. It started out with the perfect picnic on top of the world! With a stellar view of the city of Boston, a commanding view of the Charles River and Cambridge, we shared sushi with crab and shrimp and yummy spicy sauces, sweet sparkling lemonade. Complete with a red and white checkered table cloth and a hearty wicker picnic basket, we feasted on gourmet goodies. We strutted our stuff on our way over to the Boston Garden to watch our Boston Celtics play basketball. We had a blast, thanks to Bedford Rotarian Cliff Rober, from the starting horn to the closing buzzer.We even ran into a couple Bedfordites! We were super excited to see the Girl Scouts of Eastern Mass's 500 cookie club high-fiving the very tall players on the court. Way to represent ladies! (and gents :) A real game changer was when our very own Jackie O discovered that #8 on the Boston Celtics, was Jonas Jerebko, of Sweden! (and why didn't we bring the Swedish flag with us to the game?? we need to bring that thing everywhere with us!!) Afterwards, we, OK I, would chant "put the Swede in, put the Swede in" get it? put the Swede-in? A couple girls I know looked online to find a Celtics Jersey with #8, Jerebko on it. As of press time, they have not bee successful. Afterwards, I decided to talk the girls on a mystery ride(have I told you what all mystery rides end in?) Our secret destination? Toscanini's Ice Cream in Cambridge, Mass. One bite of Mint Choc chip, orancge creamsicle and mago madness, convinced us why they've been the #1 ice cream in Boston for a bazillion years! On the way back to Bedford, we couldn't help but notice how alive Cambridge was at 9:30 at night. There were skate boarders, bicyclists, lots of pedestrians out and about. Of course, there were quite a few restaurants and shops open. This was a stark contrast to the Great Road business district in Bedford. The town was already asleep, time to get my girls to bed. Evelina had a school project where she needed to record her voice. She was in her room with the door closed. And as she often did, she was said to me "don't worry, I'm not going to be talking to myself (weirdly), I have a project for school where I have to record my voice. "
A little while later she came out into the kitchen to get a cup of tea. And while we were chatting she said that didn't like listening to her voice. I thought she was going to say what most poeple say, that they don't like their own voices because they are fill in the blank "too loud", "too squeeky", "too soft", etc. Evelina said, "my accent s too strong." My first response was to tell her that accents are fabulous. I love accents! I have always said that my second husband is going to have a glorious, thick accent. In the media, personalities with Brittish accents are saught after. After I thought about it for a bit, I realized that Exchange students should definitely have an accent, in fact they should wear their accents on their sleeve every day,loud and proud. They should be the poster children for experiencing the world. Their accents are just another way to show that they've had the good fortune to have been born and or to grow up in another country. What a wonderful world we live in! Before Evelina arrived, we discovered a show called Welcome to Sweden. We curiously watched the episodes, soaking them up, with the understanding that they might not be accurate.
Convinced that the show did not provide a flattering or an accurate depiction of the culture and people, Tom believed that we shouldn't say that we had watched them. I felt it wouldn't hurt to ask, casually of course, if she'd known about it. Eve said that she did knew about it, had seen it and felt that the depictions were pretty accurate. If you're curious, you can check it out at: Welcome to Sweden TV show Wiki has more info photo credits http://deadline.com/ and http://www.nbc.com/welcome-to-sweden |
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August 2016
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