Category: Make a Difference

Sign your name, save a life…

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In May 2010, I traveled to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on a mission trip. It was only for a week, but that week was enough to impact me forever, and I long to return to that special land.

I learned yesterday that one of the orphanages with which we worked, the Son of God Orphanage, has been trafficking its children and abusing them. And my heart is truly broken. We delivered dozens of mattresses to this place so that these precious children wouldn’t have to sleep on concrete anymore. We spent time with them, loving on them, praying for them. And now to find out that their leadership is so corrupt and evil…it’s too much to bear.

You can make a difference simply by signing your name to a petition! This petition will be sent to CNN when we reach 10,000 signatures so that they can help expose the corruption, since the government of Haiti is protecting the orphanage leaders.

It will take less than a minute of your day, but it will make a HUGE difference in the lives of these orphans. PLEASE sign your name!

http://www.change.org/petitions/the-freedom-project-expose-human-trafficking-at-son-of-god-orphanage-in-haiti?utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition&utm_term=friends_wall

Lesa’s new fight…

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As many of you know, I love to argue and debate…I would love to be a lobbyist someday, for I also love to persuade people that I am right 🙂 I did an internship with a lobbyist the summer after my senior year in high school…but anyway…

So I have a potential chance to fight and lobby, and it has made me excited.

When I entered APU, I was told that I did not have to take math because my SAT math scores were high enough to waive the requirement. Nonetheless, I tried to take calculus (since I had just passed AP Calculus with a 98% in the class, and I enjoyed it thoroughly), but they wouldn’t let me because I wasn’t a math major.

So, my junior year rolls around, haven’t had math since high school…and the registrar informs me that I have to take College Algebra to graduate. I was stumped as to what I could do…because I did not get the waiver in writing, they can’t accept my word. I PASSED AP CALC (aced it, really)!! And now they want me to take ALGEBRA?!

So now the fight is on. 🙂

I am going to find out what the score to waive math is…

then, I am going to obtain my academic records, with my SAT scores, to prove to them that they were indeed high enough.

I will sit down with someone in the registrar’s office and kindly persuade them to see things my way…

If they still will not allow me to waive this, then I will resort to another tactic…

Don’t yet know what that tactic will be…but I will come up with something! 🙂

I am excited! I will have to wait until summer, but that will give me something to do! If I get that class waived, I will be ecstatic…though I could use the 3 units to count toward graduation, it’s the principle of the thing, you know? They went back on their word…so I am going to call them on it.

Anyway, that has bettered my mood for the day. When I set my mind on doing something, it is hard to get me to change my mind. 🙂 I’ll keep you posted as the battle against College Algebra begins…