13 Year Old Sydney is Someone --- Andrew Kooman
She is only thirteen years old. She walked up to the table with her mother, a day or two after her birthday. Ask any thirteen year old what they would do with $120 in birthday money and you could expect a variety of responses, with lists of items: an iPod, clothes, a skateboard, CDs and DVDs.
Something about thirteen year old Sydney was different, though: “I want to give my birthday money to help orphans in Africa.” All $120 of it.
Where would someone so young get such a selfless idea? Sydney got the idea at school, the day David Youngren, founder of Save Africa Now, visited Gateway School to present Africa Sing Me Your Song, the documentary film that continues to impact lives around the world.
Youngren was visiting Red Deer, Alberta to spread the word about the My Name Is Someone campaign that was inspired by the film.
What is exciting about the My Name Is Someone movement is that it is carried in the hearts of people all over the globe, many of them children who readily respond to the overwhelming facts the film explores about AIDS and orphans in Africa.
The film’s message, that anyone, whoever they are, can do practical things to save Africa one child at a time, was embraced by people in Red Deer. Sydney is proof.
By her actions, Sydney shows that she is Someone.
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