“No Child Left Hungry & No Person Left Powerless” – Season 2, Episode 3. Released February 3, 2015
BUMPER:
I am Tajci.
At 19 I was a superstar and I was lost inside. I left it all behind, switched continents and started all over. Years later I found myself lost again. This time in the American dream.
This is a story about awakening. About living the life you were created for. About going inward and discovering the joyous and purposeful person you and I are both meant to be.
This is “Waking Up In America.”
INTRO
Here on “Waking Up In America” we are taking a moment to step out of our regular, ordinary routine and respond to those who need our help.
TAJCI
There are stories that will never make it into the news.
There are faces of children that you’ll never see on those beautifully produced fundraising videos.
Children who are stuck somewhere between the tragedy and thriving.
Children whose parents are stuck in that place where there not quite so poor that they qualify for social services but yet they can’t and afford basics like healthy hot meal, everyday.
Recently I’ve learned about the story of Tony Robbins who is one the greatest world’s influencers and philanthropists.
Tony feeds millions of people every year and it was a random act of kindness on Thanksgiving, a meal delivered by a stranger that changed his life and really motivated him not to only to rise be above his family’s poverty but also to give, and he says not give back but give forward.
And so, what if you knew that by helping a child who is in that stuck situation you would be influencing someone, empowering someone who will, down the road change the face of the earth.
Maybe find a cure for cancer maybe be a great leader and connect us all into into the awareness, deeper awareness of peace and love and connection for each other.
Maybe continue to feed the world. Would you help?
Would you join hands with others who believe that you and I are the only people in the world that can make the change in the world?
Sometimes it takes, well always it takes a lot of faith to know that yes, what I do today will indeed make a difference.
When I was four years old I believed that music had that power.
And that’s been my motivation, and I did everything they could to really make a difference through music.
Last summer, I received an offer from a songwriter from Croatia from Dalmatia. Actually and I never sang a Dalmatian song before. She’s a beautiful woman who is a mother and also lives in Croatia and struggles through this economic crisis and it’s not just economic crisis that she and so many others are struggling through, it’s also a struggle of believing that anything or something is possible, that change is possible.
I was really compelled to connect this song with doing something real and doing something that can deliver a meal. I felt this desire to just keep working through the obstacles. I spent the whole night awake…
I couldn’t sleep… and the very next morning I received a message on my LinkedIn account from a lady in Croatia who is a part a beautiful organization call Portal dobrote, a web portal “Portal of Kindness”, and they had already established this very successful project where you go to the bakery, you buy a daily bread but you also buy another loaf for someone who will come and pick it up for free, who can’t afford that loaf of fresh bread.
She told me about the new project they’re launching, called “No Child Left Hungry”.
And I immediately jumped on the computer and wanted to connect with her to see if we can together hold hands and feed some of those children who are stuck between the tragedy and thriving in a little tiny country that doesn’t make it into the news often like Croatia.
TAJCI (sings)
Uvik si me ucila (You have always taught me)
mir je svetinja (peace is sacred)
Da judi nisu zli (People are not created mean)
virovala si. (you believed)
Svitovala me (you advised me)
da cu sritna biti ja (that I will be happy)
kad me tude nevoje (when other people’s pain)
isto ka moje zabole (hurt just like my own)
Uzorita si (You are beautiful)
puna jubavi (full of love)
znam tila bi (I know you’d want)
da budem ka i ti (that I am little more like you)
bez grija da sam ja (innocent and pure)
mirna, spokojna (peaceful and calm)
a kad mi stuku voju svi (and when the world breaks me)
da mi tvoja svitlost (your light would)
frizi izlici (heal my wounds)
TAJCI
So we set up a ‘Zoom” meeting to be able to introduce them to you and the project that we’re gonna join.
PETRA
The crisis is bigger and stronger than ever.
Our neighbors are in need. People, kids who are going to primary school with our kids are in need.
If not us, who will raise their voices and say, okay let’s do something! As I’m always saying, we are always saying, there is no small help so anybody can do something.
We don’t believe that problem is that people are going over the garbage and trying to find some food there. We think that the problem is that that’s perfectly normal for us.
That’s the main problem, because people just stopped to believe that something can happen and something can change and somebody is it with them.
TAJCI
I thought we were just raising money to feed the children but I think we’re raising awareness of this power between you and I. That’s wonderful! Thank you so much!
We’re gonna ask people to donate whatever they can, a dollar, five dollars, ten dollars.
PETRA
Everything will be transparent. We understand the fear from people, where is that money going. We are just in the beginning, we’re just warming up!
TAJCI
Keep bringing this optimism and hope and thank you so much!
PETRA
Thank you!
TAJCI (sings)
Uzorita si (You are beautiful)
puna jubavi (full of love)
znam tila bi (I know you’d want)
da budem ka i ti (that I am little more like you)
bez grija da sam ja (innocent and pure)
mirna, spokojna (peaceful and calm)
a kad mi stuku voju svi (and when the world breaks me)
da mi tvoja svitlost (your light would)
frizi izlici (heal my wounds)
TAJCI
So make your donation today.
Help a child who is out there not expecting anything. Help them to know that they are strangers, people in the world who truly care.
Help us all to, and yourself as well, to see how you and I can make a difference.
It will change your heart and your life I guarantee it. I promise you, we’ll keep you updated with how the donations are being applied and how we are making a difference.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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