More photos here. Maybe you don't care about these things, but I do. These are nigerian children getting familiar with their new 100 dollars laptops. This is good news for everyone!
One of my dreams is setting up business schools for children in my country of origin, Uruguay. One day I'll also be able to help like this.
What Nicholas Negroponte and his team have achieved is admirable. It doesn't matter if the effort may be tainted by corruption in some receiving countries, it's always been so. It doesn't matter if some computers don't get to these children. It doesn't matter if they may even have a higher final cost than initially expected.
The important thing is that people in developed countries are taking notice of these realities.
The important thing is that now these children and their families will have a completely different future. Imagine! And this is good news for every person on earth.
The waves of equality are slowly but surely spreading around the world. Great!
Thank you Bono, Bill Gates, Angelina Jolie and all the rest that do such a valuable job where it matters the most: putting the pressure on the wealthy by showing these realities, so ealisly ignored. That's the most effective work that can be done to change the world. What you do is priceless. In the name of all of us, thanks to everyone involved in making the lives of others better in any way.
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There are things that are better left untouched by business. Like childhood.
Look at Britney Spears, Marilyn and many others. A contract like the one you mention would make a lot of money for people around her, yes, but what about her? Would this be good for her? Could she lead a normal life? Would her friends treat her as an equal? I don’t think so.
She would also be limited to one of her talents, hampering the development of any others that she may have.
Worst of all, she may learn from such an early age the mistaken concept of people loving you for what you do, not for who you are.
On top of that, the more money there is around her, the more frictions her parents could have, and she would hate herself for it.
The best thing that could have happened to her, in my opinion, is not to be in that show to begin with. Let alone to be the focus of media attention and sign a million dollar contract…
Moreover, popularity is highly addictive, and it is very hard to live without it once you’ve had it. How would she feel when she is not in fashion anymore, when people say to her (maybe at 7) that someone sings “much better than you”, or that she “is a nobody now”.
Kids can be quite cruel and those messages would stay with her forever.
I know you are talking of an hypotetical situation here, but with all due respect to you and other enterpreneurs, I would strongly suggest to get your PR opportunities somewhere else…
Surely we don’t need to use a 6 y.o. (like her parents are doing right now) to get a few bucks more.
Regards
Javier
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I don't think Sahar wished this girl anything bad, it just gave me the chance to express my view about all this stupid child celebrity thing. Let children be just children!