The team at 4m.erdd.us was so pleased to receive email correspondence from a young woman in Hamburg, Germany by the name of Mina. Her enthusiasm and dedication to using her time and energy to focus on theatre, dance, music and helping others inspires us and we are PROUD that the work we are doing is resonating with so many people of all ages and backgrounds.
Read her story below and let it inspire you to do something good wherever you are. We are happy to say we have 4mamaearth family doing work just like this in Indonesia, the UK and now Germany. Get involved!
Dear Mrs Bayot,
I‘m Mina. I‘m 13 years old and from Hamburg, Germany. I’m in 8th grade and after school I act in a theatre, I dance and I also play piano, drums and guitar.
I think charitable work is really important so I have been part of a youth group of Greenpeace and Amnesty International since I was eleven to realize projects with them. I also help a youth organisation called “Youth Against Aids” and I collect money for a school in Afghanistan. I am also planting trees with “Plant for the Planet” but my favorite hobby is interviewing! I am a young reporter for a German childrens’ news magazine. Maybe one day I will interview Bruno Mars, this would be awesome!
I‘ve got one older brother and one older sister.
On the 5th of October, I went to a Bruno Mars concert, the first concert of my life. It was just amazing! Before the concert, I wasn‘t a really big fan but now my whole room is full of posters of him! As I learned more and more about him, one day I saw a picture on Twitter of your little son and him boxing. After awhile I realized that he also has siblings, so I have looked at your Twitter page and I saw this website “4M.A.M.A.Earth”. I have visited it and I think this is just a great organisation! Now I love 4M.A.M.A.Earth!
At my school, I‘m the pupils’ representative and I was looking for a cool organisation like this to realize some ideas of yours with my classmates and raise money for your causes. Since I was eleven, it has been my aim to estabilish an organisation like 4M.A.M.A.Earth!
Recently, I’ve had time to create a little concept of how I can support you. These are my results:
1. I am going to organize a flea market and I want to sell donated stuff from my family, friends and of course mine!
2. Every month I want to sell homemade cake and waffles at my school.
3. I also want to organize a school party with a raffle. I have already organized a party like this before and we donated the proceeds to the earthquake victims in Haiti.
4. At each of these little “events”, I want to distribute flyers (maybe a list of 25 things you can do to make a difference) and sell wish bracelets. It would be awesome if you could send me the package.
This past Thursday and Friday, we sold cake during school break. I made all the cakes and my awesome friends helped sell it together with me! We have earned 200 € ! It was really successful! I have never earned so much money by selling cake! We’ll be purchasing the 4mamaearth fundraising bracelets with the money we’ve earned and we’ll use these to raise more money or give them away with a purchase/donation at future cake sales and fundraisers.
I really hope that you don‘t think that I‘m just a crazy teenie, because I am not. I am really friendly and most people say that spending time with me feels like they’ve known me their whole life, although we’ve only spent maybe ten minutes together.
A lovely Sunday and greetings from Germany, Mina.
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