We reached out to activist parents whose children are beneficiaries of RFC grants and asked them to share their wisdom with us. Here are their responses:
What is your “why?” What keeps you going when the world is bleak?
- Our kids deserve the freedom to be kids.
- To create change, one has to be willing to sacrifice and build. The work I do helps create necessary change for the elevation of humanity.
- My day will go by whether I spend it trying to do good or wallowing in despair. So I try and do good, sometimes even while wallowing.
- The love for my children is what keeps me going. My love for them is greater than my problems.
- I ask myself questions like 'Why give up or give in?' and 'Why me…why not me?' These questions keep me going.
What is the most important lesson you have learned through your activist work?
- Family is everything! Protecting and educating the youth is the best way to make change.
- Upholding and promoting morally upright principles lead to contentment in this world.
- To never give up! We do not have all the answers and ours is not the only truth.
- It doesn’t come without sacrifices...but every knockdown is not a knockout.
- We are, all of us, connected. What happens upstream floats downstream.