Nelson Daily Stories

 THE STORY BEHIND THE DIVYA On December 23, 2019 Newsround on the BBC carried a story headlined “New hand cranked washing machines could help refugees.” The article began: “Hand washing clothes can be a really hard task but it’s even harder in a place with little water or electricity – somewhere like a refugee camp.” It continued to explain that fifty new low-cost hand cranked washing machines designed by student Nav Sawhney from the University of Bath, in England would be trialled at a refugee camp in Iraq in the Middle East that week. “It’s hoped that they will help families living in the camps who struggle to wash their clothes.” How did this all begin? It was during a sabbatical in southern India that Nav had spoken with a woman there who told him it was extremely hard for her and others to get their clothes clean.” He had seen for himself “women and children enduring many backbreaking hours washing clothes by hand.” Nav felt prompted to help the people there “with their daily ...

HOW DO WE CHANGE THE WORLD?           ONE RANDOM ACT OF KINDNESS AT A TIME                             Morgan Freeman     “It just blows my mind that someone could be so generous to a stranger,” Savannah Stoneman said. “I just want to thank them from the bottom of my heart and let them know that their kind act has relieved so much stress I have been dealing with.” Who is Savannah Stoneman? A famous actress? A politician perhaps? No! Savannah is a student at Coastal Carolina University in the USA now doing her student teaching internship. Savannah works twice each week at the Outback Steakhouse in Conway to help herself as “money is very tight.” Savannah’s father was deployed in Iraq sometime ago and she has a tattoo of his handwriting done on her wrist. As she was serving a young couple last...