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Craig and Marc Kielburger,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
Craig first met Oprah in 1999 when, at 16, he was a guest on a show about young people making a difference. Oprah being Oprah,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the guests all got surprise gifts. Craig received a cheque from a young boy who had raised money to build a school in Nicaragua.
But the biggest surprise came when Oprah pledged to help us build schools. During the break, a stunned crew member asked Oprah if she wanted to re-tape the segment -- minus her spontaneous burst of generosity. She didn't.
Oprah and her viewers helped us build 59 schools in 12 countries,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], changing 30,000 young lives. In Haiti,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], children orphaned after the earthquake get a support network; in India and rural China, girls go to school instead of to work in factories; in Sierra Leone, former child soldiers are reclaiming their childhoods.
Since that spontaneous gift, we've been back to her show five times to share school updates,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and sometimes life-altering,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], heart-wrenching moments.
In 2004, Oprah reached out to us with a special request. Her close friend and the show's featured design expert Nate Berkus survived the devastating South Asian tsunami, but he lost his partner, Fernando Bengoechea. Oprah asked us to build a school in Fernando's memory, then travel with Nate to the emotional opening ceremony. Craig will never forget standing with Nate,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], in tears, as he relived the crushing wall of water and then realized he'd helped rebuild a community.
The more moments we shared with Oprah, the more we were in awe of how hard she works; taping back-to-back episodes, chairing board meetings, embracing her charity work. Oprah has always been candid about her humble roots. It helped America fall in love with her. We were curious about the motivation behind her mission,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], so we asked her to share a story for a book we were writing titled Me to We.
She told us of a Christmas when she was 12, and her mom, who was single, was struggling on welfare. She couldn't afford presents for Oprah and her two siblings. It wasn't the lost hope of new toys that upset Oprah, it was the embarrassment. How does a child tell their classmates that she got nothing for Christmas? There are no words.
After Oprah had all but given up on Christmas,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], there was a knock at the family's door. Three nuns had come with gifts: a turkey, a fruit basket, and games,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as well as a simple doll for Oprah. She told us she cherishes that moment as the best Christmas of her childhood. "I remember feeling that I mattered enough to these nuns. I wasn't forgotten. Somebody had thought enough of me to bring me a gift," she recalled.
Years later,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Oprah started Christmas Kindness,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a program that brought gifts to South African children. Sneakers for kids who'd never owned shoes and soccer balls for those who longed to play the country's favourite sport. And dolls. Of course, dolls. That Christmas,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], she brought joy to 50,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],000 children, but felt "more than a million moments of happiness."
The gift of that one doll has had an enormous ripple effect that continues to spread across the globe.
We saw it when she pledged to help us build schools all those years ago. And we see it in our final collaboration with Oprah,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
Everyone misses Oprah, and her last show hasn't even aired yet. We'll miss her, too, but we'd rather not say goodbye. We'd rather say thank you, Oprah, for your passionate generosity and for the gift of education.
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