Team Tia

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[Team Tia]

Hello, I am Tia and I am 9.  I have my own team - Team Tia - and want to say how proud I am be to be a part of Kiva. I am so happy that I am able to bring people together to help others.  I have serious health conditions.  My thyroid is mental and works too hard whereas my heart is huge and works too hard aswell ... I am on masses of medication, I had open heart surgery in June 2009 and I need a heart transplant.  I have received wonderful help with my health and I know every day is a blessing so I want to give something back.  I want people to be able to provide their own food, get educated and have health care.  All the things I get and depend on.  If I had the money I would pay for everyone who needs it.  I want to help and would like as many people as possible to join my group - so they can help aswell.
(mum wrote this for me as I am not very good at spelling in english)

[A Nonny Mouse]

  to KivaFriends, Tia (and Tia's mum)! 

I enjoyed looking through your webpage the other day, it was very interesting to read!  I hope you are doing well, and I'm pleased you decided to join us here at KF!

 

Nonny

[Diane R]

Welcome to KivaFriends, Tia!  Many of us are already members of your lending team, and it's lots of fun for us, too, to read the greetings posted there and learn new things from the other team members.  If other KivaFriends would like to join, the team link is  here.

Have a wonderful rest-of-weekend!

--Diane.

[Jan & John]

  This is so exciting to see you here, Tia...

... as Diane said, many of us here have joined your team.

Kiva Friends are terrific people from all over the world and everyone wants just one thing...

... to make the world a better place to live.

We are all working together to help Kiva become stronger...
...  because we believe that lending is the best way possible to help.

-jan-

[Mona]

So wonderful to have you with us, Tia! 
I also joined your team some days ago. And reading the messages of your new (and older) team members has since then become one of my favorite times of the day! 
As Jan said, isn't it wonderful that there are so many people around the world who just love to help others? 

Best wishes,
(Ra)mona

[cjp1973]

Tia and Jed, it is wonderful to see you here at kivafriends.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Charmaine

[Wood Fairy Glenda]

Hi, Tia, and welcome to Kiva Friends! 
     I, too, heard about your team and immediately joined.  Being a great procrastinator, I have not yet posted a message there, but when I saw you here I couldn't resist.
     I think you and your team are the greatest!  I know you have serious health problems, but I see that you are doing more good in your life than are many of us who are in good health.
     Keep up the great work and enjoy all your friends around the world.  We all love you and are hoping for the best possible health for you and happiness for your family too!   
     

[Antonia]

Hola Tia,
It's wonderful to see you and your mom here at Kiva Friends 
Your team gives us the additional joy to see people join to please YOU....
Loads of love to you and your family.
Besos,
Antonia 

[Team Tia]

I am so happy to see so many people who are supporters of Team Tia.  Recently I have seen several loans completed and cried with my mum as I was so happy that they could fulfill their wish.  You are all very wonderful people and I am so proud and happy to know you all. I have recently received some gift certificates which I am eager to use.  So far I have used 2 and cried again when mum submitted them and they were accepted.  I know I have helped someone to help themself!  My illnesses over powers me and I have no control over it so it is amazing to give something back and choose what it is for.  Deserving people!  I have to wait a little while to check out other loans as there are not so many now and they keep getting completed as I try to loan.   I will keep looking every afternoon with mum and make sure we keep loaning when we can.

Thank you to  everyone on Team Tia.  You are all amazing and fill me with such happiness and hope.
With lots of love
Tia
(written by mum - again!)

If you get chance check out my website www.tiasadventure.com and maybe post an hello on my guestbook.

[Jill]

It was either posting here or posting in the I’ll Show You Mine If You’ll Show Me Yours thread.   But I thought that somebody might try running me out of (KivaFriend-) Dodge if I tried resurrecting but still another of my sad, ill-fated threads.

Our friend, little Tia,  via a recent post on her website, has introduced me to a holiday I hadn’t heard of before but now am very glad to know about: 

Dia de la Paz, or…. The International (or, The School) Day of Non-violence and Peace.  It’s observed, apparently, on January 30 or thereabouts every year on the anniversary of Gandhi’s death.

“ Its basic message is:
‘Universal Love, Non-violence and Peace.  Universal Love is better than egoism, Non-violence is better than violence, and Peace is better than war’."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_Day_of_Non-violence_and_Peace
http://denip.webcindario.com/denip.english.html
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.intermonoxfam.org/es/page.asp%3Fid%3D2217&ei=5SxmS6SPNI-IsgOPyMWdAw&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CA4Q7gEwAg&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522DENIP%2522%26hl%3Den

What I’m wondering is who I’d have to talk to in order to get my country to switch celebrating Columbus’ Day, which has become something of a national embarrassment, for an International School Day of Non-Violence and Peace.   Sure seems like a no-brainer to me. 

The only objection that I, personally, would have to the idea of a “Day of Peace” is that its observance would be slated for only one day each year.  I’d much prefer 365 International Days of Non-Violence and Peace,  if given the choice.  Either way, what a wonderful thing that at least in some countries, children are taught from a very early age that Peace and Non-Violence are attitudes, that they're approaches to life that they should celebrate, that they should revere.

Anyway, thanks, Little Tia**.  You are teaching all of us so much that has value.
Posted with love,
Jill (and Fella)

**and mummy, Jed

The first image, below, has a banner that says:  "No hay camino para la paz.   La paz es el camino."
Translated, that means:  There is no road to peace.  Peace is the road.

EDIT: Yes, I do know that this is already way too long, but look, you don't have to read it if you don't want to.
The great serendipitous benefits that come from curiosity and “research”….
I just clicked on the phrase, “national embarrassment,” above, to make sure I’d gotten the link right.  When there, after re-reading what the History Channel’s website had had to say about the Columbus controversy, my eyes dropped to the bottom of the page where, at the time,  I found three different poster images of paintings by the African American Artist, Romare Bearden.  But even better than that, for me, right next to them, I found a little tiny icon/image that led me to a page for a DVD called “The People Speak.”

Turns out it was based on a couple of books by Howard Zinn, one of the heroes of my life, whose death Kay noted in an Anything Goes post a few days ago.  At the link where the DVD was discussed, they let you have a preview of the DVD.  It looks pretty neat to me, not to mention a really painless way of learning about history!