WELCOME!

Hi

Welcome to my brand new blog! wahoo!

This blog is about an idea. An idea that I've been thinking about for months. An idea that has been evolving and changing. I've been involved in Youth Work in some shape or form since I was a teenager. One of the challenges of had is to inspire teenagers to think about bigger things then just themselves. ;) You know what I mean, right? Don't get me wrong. Teenagers have an incredible ability to bring change and to inspire people to change. We've all seen and heard of teenagers willing to give up everything for a cause, even to death. On one hand they have the ability to be lazy selfish buggers ;) and on the other hand you get them passionate about something and they will change the world.

This is about an idea which I'm hoping will get students passionate about "Social Justice" in their school, enabling them to raise thousands of dollars in their school and in turn create a culture that they care about "Social Justice" in their home, in their school, in their community, in their country and in the world.

I'm not going to share the idea yet. My idea wouldn't be very original if I shared it with everyone. However I do hope to inspire you with the stories I find. This blog is really about educating my self more then anyone.

I read something recently that really challenged me, its a quote from Economist Jeffrey Sachs (who ever he is!). He said "This is the first generation in the history of the world with the ability to eradicate extreme poverty. We have the means, the resources and the know-how. All we lack is the will."

Wow! That blew me away. Why aren't we doing it? Its because as a culture we really don't care. We don't have the will.

Hopefully, in the course of writing this blog I will at least change me. Hopefully I will at least have "The WILL" to bring the change that I can.

I want to share a lot of inspirational stories on this blog. If you have an inspirational story about social justice small or big then please send it to me so that I can share it and we can all be inspired. If you know of good youtubes, good websites or blogs let me know. Stay posted because I'm going to be searching for all sorts of ways and ideas in which we can make a difference for these enormous causes together.

Stay tuned my next post will be about chocolate, mmmmmmmm...........I love chocolate! :)

Pete