Excellent CBS News Sunday Morning Show today!

    I was extremely inspired this morning, when I watched CBS News Sunday Morning.  A truly genuine story was told by Mark Straussman, about a young woman named, Luma Mufleh living, in a suburb near Atlanta Georgia and her dream to build a school. 

    Luma Mufleh, was born in Jordan in 1974 and she moved to the US to attend Smith College. After graduation she established residency and found work in Clarkston, Ga.  She ended up forming a Fugees soccer team with the children living in our country from other war torn countries.      

     She became very involved, especially in 2007, when she went all in and is now dreaming big to build a school that will help educate these children, with whom the public schools are unfortunately failing. With her love of soccer and her desire to become a US citizen, she understands what these children need to succeed and she understands the importance of not taking US citizenship for granted as she has just recently been granted US Citizenship. She is doing all she can to create a village of supporters for her program, has been and will continue to help carry her kids through a lifetime of education and learning. Her energy and dedication is driving her dream to build a well needed school for them.

   Wouldn't it be fantastic if somehow the young girls who recently invented and designed the SOccket Ball, came together to raise the 5 million needed to build this Refugee school on the 19 foreclosed acres Luma has been able to purchase. 

     I will follow this story and I hope when I graduate that I'm able to meet her and visit her school and all the kids who attend. What an inspiration that would be. It is my dream to find financial ways to help her and propagate programs like this that are necessary everywhere in the U.S. to elevate young children with the education and support they need to become our next outstanding generation. It's only from the firm foundation we build and nurture that we can then lean on for strength & support in our futures.


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     Strausman, Mark, perf. "War, Soccer, and the American 
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