Freedom for Afghanistan Girls.

Chaeli Mycroft.

WHAT IS CHAELI MYCROFT IS FIGHTING FOR

As you walk down the street, you see a girl with a handicap. She has limited ability of her arms and legs. She is bound to a wheelchair. You feel sorry for her because she might have hard challenges to do the things you are easily able to do. Chaeli Mycroft is a South African child who is challenged by her Cerebral Palsy. Cerebral Palsy is disorders that can involve brain and nervous system functions, such as movement, learning, hearing, seeing and thinking. Chaeli refuses to let her condition disable her. She doesn’t want people to feel sorry for her; she wants to be treated as an equal. At the age of nine, Chaeli wanted to be more independent by having a motorized wheelchair that better suits her. After getting her own wheelchair and experiencing more independence, Chaeli felt that she wanted to help other children who were faced with physical challenges. She started her own campaign called the Chaeli Campaign. Her campaign helps over 3000 children with handicaps by providing them with hope for acceptance and supportive products that allow them to become more independent. She is fighting for hope and equality.

Chaeli is hoping children with disabilities are accepted by others and will receive the same opportunities. Her hope didn’t only come out from her, her friends and her sister also gave her hope to believe in herself. Hope that children with challenges aren’t really different from others. “It’s what keeps us striving for the lives we deserve. I have hope for myself, but I also have hope for all other children with disabilities. I hope that my actions as an ability activist will leave the world more accepting and more accommodating for all people and not just people with disabilities, because we are all different and we all have the need to be accepted regardless of having a disability or not.” (From her own speech.)She decided to share this hopes to others. One of her hope is that she will give education. "We run an ECD inclusion programme in disadvantaged communities as well as support children with disabilities in mainstream schools. We have created a supplement to the Life Orientation curriculum that is being introduced into mainstream primary schools that focuses on creating more accepting school environments.(From Chaeli Campaign)" Because, herself noticed that hope is really important, she is giving them education. By giving an education it shows children that somebody believe in them so they can believe in themselves too. Like Chaeli believed in herself.  

She is also fighting for the equality for disable children. She is providing a supportive products to make them as be independent as they could be. "Custom-made assistive devices are provided to improve posture and in support of the great work done by our therapists in making children more comfortable in their own bodies, whilst trying to improve functional use of hands and fingers as well.(Chaeli Campaign)" The most common thing that they are providing is wheelchairs. Chaeli wanted to be more independent by buying a wheelchair that supports her. The wheelchair was designed to help her more than any other ones, and to buy that her sister and her three closest friends started to earn money. Chaeli earned so much freedom from that so she decided to do the same thing for handicapped children. “A professional organization that annually helps more than 3000 children with disabilities in South Africa with equipment, physical therapy and which defends the rights and acceptance of disabled children.( The International Children’s Peace Prize)" By earning some money she gave them a wheelchair, hoping that it will give them as much freedom that she earned.

Chaeli Mycroft deserves the 2011 International Children's Peace Prize. Because Chaeli Mycroft is fighting for hope and equality for children with handicaps. She is trying to change the thoughts for disabled children. When you see a child or even a person, they deserves the same rights and the same needs with us. So rethink when you see a children bound to a wheelchair, even with a handicap they are able person.

sources used

"The Chaeli Campaign | Hope in Motion." 2005. 1 Nov. 2012 <http://chaelicampaign.co.za/>

"2011 Chaeli Mycroft." 2011. 1 Nov. 2012 <http://childrenspeaceprize.org/childrens-peace-price/2011-chaeli-mycroft/>

"Children's Peace Prize winner Chaeli Mycroft in South Africa ..." 2012. 1 Nov. 2012 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24zQ13hQfKI>

List poem:
Wavy hair, not I wanted
puffy - don’t like it
Glasses that is flexible than other glasses.-brown
bottom of my eyes are dark - tired
brown bracelet with two shapes - catholic
white shirt - ISKL with one button locked  
half sleeves
ugly nails survived from my bites
some cuts on my arms and hands.
normal school pants that come to my knees with four pockets.
dark blue pants.
spongebob wallet with 41Rm on one right pocket
earphone and candy on the other pocket.
blue sucks with some unknown characters on it.
FILA shoes - bought it from Korea
ugly ribbons tied on top of my shoes

-Snapshot of me, Justin.


Where I am from:
I am from 1998, November 10, snowy day.
I am from Korea where K-pop is from.
Where four season exists.

I am from little stickers I use to collect when I was young
I am also from Tom and Jerry.
snow, a lot of snow is also where I am from.
I am from Greek myth.

I am from the word ‘Hello’
From the word “LOL” and “ikr”
Also from “OMG”
Internet and phones is where I am from.

I am from the lake from my pa’s hometown.
I am from the crackers from my pa’s brothers.
Form the jam that my grandmother made for me.

My nagging mom, screaming sister, and noisy dog is where I am from.
I am from my ma’s weird food that doesn’t have a name.
Which doesn’t taste bad and doesn’t taste good.
I am from these albums, which it is going to be thicker and thicker.


Question: Why/how is one's individual identity worth fighting for?
When they aren't any personal or individual identity all of us will be the same. We will all think the same, have all the same history. If everyone thinks the same everybody will want to something that you want to do and you won't have any differences with others. People won't have any different color, they all be the same. When this happens life is going to be so boring. This is why personal and individual identity is worth fighting for.

Victory

What I felt sorry for the little girl, seeing her weakened father. Their is a sentence, "There was no fear....... and no hunger," This shows how much she enjoyed dancing with her father, and I think she enjoyed more because she knew that this was the last time and the first time they are going to dance together. It was last time to dance with her father because her father is going to be taken away. This moment was a small victory that she made during she was dancing.

I agree that when people says, "What makes a person a victim is they have limited or no-options about how to act. This statements really fits the the Jews people(victim) during the holocaust. Because Jewish people had to watch even their house and their company get destroyed by the strorm troopers. Some of them had to just go to the camp and wait for their death. In addition, 6 million Jews people got killed in the camp by Nazis(the predators). When the Jews went to the camp they did not had any choices too, because the only thing they do was labor, and wait for their death. Even they were not in the camp when they did not the fallow the rules in Germany even it is not fair, they will get killed by the Nazis. So I do agree with the statement, ''What make a person a victim is they have limited or no-options about how to act.''

Looking at the image.

The picture name includes 'Jew' so I think the grand-father in the picture is Jewish person. Because the person looks like grand-father we looks powerless and he is holding a walking stick that is bent, not straight. The other had is starching out, and it looks like he wants something, and there is also coin on the hand. The wood he is holding represent the Communist. The background is yellow and the man is the focal point.

The drawing is drew as a poster to represent that Jewish people are powerless and they are useless like a bent walking stick. The hand that is starched out could represent, they need somebodies help to survive, and again this might shows the powerless of Jewish people. However, this could be true because Jewish people had to live in Germany even it was not their land. The coin on the hand shows the greedy part of the Jewish people. The Communist sign that he is holding could be the sign that, the Jews want to take over the Germany.

This picture could make German people think, Jewish people are useless so they don't have to be exist in the world, especially, in Germany. The Picture of the man doesn't look clean and doesn't look nice, because of that the man looks disgusting. This can make the German people think Jewish people is disgusting. So this shows the bad message about Jewish people.


http://us.altermedia.info/images/EternalJew2.jpg

Was the Treaty of Versailles- fair or unfair?

I don't think that the Treaty of Versailles was fair. For me the Treaty of Versailles of treaty didn't really exist. In addition, it was just a punishment for Germany and it weaken it. They were some articles on the paper and it was all basically about Germany is going to regret what he had done during WWl. For example, about three of them said that the Germany will respect or recognizes the independence of many country. After all, this was one of the reason why WWll began. Therefor, I think was an unfair treaty and there was no treat of Treaty of Versailles.