Thank You!

Twenty Five Days to Make a Difference started sixteen months ago. When I started my blog, I didn’t expect anyone other than my family to read it. It’s been amazing to me that so many people have read and helped to support the charities that I like. I’ve learned that I really love doing service [...]

Thank You for Spreading the Word!

I want to thank everyone for participating in my blog carnival! I began reading all of your posts last night. I’m going to finish and leave comments for everyone tonight! I hope that everyone will visit the comments section of my post from yesterday. You can see who participated and follow the links back to [...]

Announcing a Great Prize for the Blog Carnival!

As many of you know, I will be doing a blog carnival on 3.31.09. This weekend my mom and I started to think about the prize thatI will be giving away. This morning, Woot was running a really good deal on the Flip Video Camera. I have enough money saved up in bottle returns from [...]

An Update for the Blog Carnival

Soeren Palumbo is a teenager who has a sister with an intellectual disability. Sometimes, he hears people use the r-word, and he feels terrible about it. A while ago, Soeren made a speech to his class about all of this, and without knowing or trying, and it was spread all over the internet. Tim Shriver Jr. is a college student who was [...]

A Blog Carnival for Spread the Word to End the Word

On March 31, 2009, it will be Spread the Word to End the Word day for the Special Olympics. Spread the Word to End the word is trying to get kids and adults to STOP saying the r-word. The Special Olymics has asked me to help out with it and I am deciding to host a blog carnival.
A blog carnival [...]

Today I read a comment from Chocbonbonbella from room5weblog.blogspot.com. They asked
“But what if  someone IS retarded and you call that person that, and they take it the wrong way? Not saying retarded is really hard for all my friends and I.”
I commented back, but I thought that it was an intresting topic. What IF someone has an [...]

Bar The R-Word

Last week, I was in Idaho at the Special Olympics Youth Activation Summit. Well, when I was there, we talked a lot about how people use the word “retard” in really insensitive ways. We talked about how it effects other people, how much it hurts, and most important, how to STOP this from happening.
The r-word hurts. [...]

Today I read a little bit more about what the Special Olympics is doing for people with disibilities. I read about a law that advocates for people with disabilities are trying to get passed. It’s called the Fitness and Athletics Equity for Students with Disabilities Act. This act is like the Title IX Act which gave girls [...]

Human Rights and the CRPD

The CRPD is the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Every time a country ratifies this convention, they agree to:

Improve laws and make laws that protect the human rights of the disabled
Enforce laws
Protect people with disabilities
Educate the public about human rights
Involve people with disabilities in decisions
Tell the United Nations what they are doing [...]

The Way We Treat People With Intellectual Disabilities

Today I started doing some reading so I can learn more about the Special Olympics before I go to Idaho. Most of what I read was about how people with intellectual disabilities are often treated in our communities. The things that I read were very informational and they really made me think .
I learned that there are different models for [...]

Drum Roll Please!!!!

Drum roll please! Today is the final day of the annual 25 Days Contest!  So, today I tallied up everyone who did something to make a difference.
DRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR……………
The single person who made a difference this year was…………..    Greg Gutierrez! The reason Mr. Gutierrez won was because he left a comment on what he did almost everyday [...]

December 19-22 2008

Laura: On December 19, I was especially thankful for the work that my parents do to keep our house so nice and clean and cheery all the time. They always work their her hardest to give us a nice home. So, I folded all of the laundry that was waiting in baskets in the basement. There was a lot! [...]

December 17 and 18, 2008

Laura:
Yesterday I was thankful for everyone that helps someone in need because I donated some money to my homeroom teacher’s drive for someone in need. She said that she is going to take the money that she gets and she is going to buy everyone in the family a gift. I have only seen about [...]

December 13, 14, 15 2008

Laura:
This Saturday, I was thankful for my mom. I was (and always are) thankful for her care and her devotion to being a great mom. She is always helpful, even when she isn’t feeling well or has a lot on her mind. I have always liked how she listens to me, even when I drone [...]

December 11, and 12 2008

Laura: Today I’m thankful for my homeroom teacher because I caught her making a difference for a family in need. Today, my homeroom teacher started a change drive for my team. She told us that if we have any loose change then it would be really cool if we donated it.
I’m really happy about this [...]