Safiya Hussain


Ok, brace yourself for this one... I WANT TO SAVE THE WORLD. Really, I do.

Well, at least a small part of it?

Everyone has a dream (or should) and my dream is to save a small part of the world. A little like Superwoman... (?) 

I have the inherent desire to be successful, super-successful, but the thought of making money just for myself doesn't thrill me. The idea of sitting in a Porsche, wearing a Versace dress and Prada shoes has never excited me (although, I admit, such luxury would be nice to have). As corny as it sounds, sitting in a field, in the middle of Africa, with a destitute woman and her child besides me as I hand them a bowl of soup - that would excite me. Without that powerful thing they call 'money' it's very difficult to make changes and to help. It is very sad to see people living like kings at one end of the world whilst others look on hoping for a scrap of bread to get through the day. 

Who knows where my dream will end and whether I will ever do what I have set out to do but I live by the belief that 'absolutely anything is possible'.

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