10 Year-Old Canadian Girl More Helpful To Afghans Than 61 Year-Old American President

In 2006, a ten year-old Canadian girl named Alaina Podmorow heard that in Afghanistan, many girls were not able to receive an education because there was not enough funding for female teachers. So Alaina got together with 18 other girls and formed Little Women for Little Women in Afghanistan, a junior branch of the non-profit group Women for Women in Afghanistan. They organized fundraisers, potluck dinners, and even a silent auction.

To date the group has raised enough money to pay the salaries of 26 teachers in Afghanistan. Absolutely amazing. I won’t even taint this story by mentioning that if the US nation-building efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq were to have ANY chance of working whatsoever, these salaries should have been funded years ago by the US government. And that we are still providing approximately half the rebuilding funds it has been estimated are necessary in Iraq and Afghanistan, based on previous counter-insurgencies. And that as a result we are going to fail in Iraq and probably Afghanistan too. Oops.