Kids Are Heroes Day 2010

Posted by Gabe on August 28, 2010 under KAH Day 2010, Kids are Heroes, Kids Are Heroes Day | Read the First Comment

It’s not even September and already I am waking up in the middle of the night thinking about Kids Are Heroes Day. We are exactly eight weeks away from the big event. It has been my goal to make each event bigger and better than the last one. This starts to become a challenge after you’ve had ex-NFL players put on a show during one of them. But already I’m pretty confident we will live up to the task. More on why a bit later.

For the unaware this will be our third annual Kids Are Heroes Day to be held at the Francis Scott Key Mall in Frederick, Maryland. Christina Steinbrenner, marketing director of the mall, has been very generous to us since our inception. The fountain coins are donated to a different hero’s charity each month, and Christina makes every effort to ensure that Kids Are Heroes Day is something special.

So what makes this year stand above the rest? Well last year we had Cati Grant travel all the way from San Diego, California to be with us. Cati, whose platform is against bullying, held the record for traveling the furthest to be at one of our events. Well her record will be shattered this year by Diana Onyonyi who will be coming all the way from Nairobi, Kenya!! We are so excited to be able to meet and welcome her. Diana is a fifteen-year-old young woman who was instrumental in building a school dormitory and library for the Karura school in Nairobi. She is a Global Teen Leader through the Three Dot Dash organization.  According to an email I just received from her she “was named as a contributor in the process of building the second republic” of Kenya as “His Excellency Mwai Kibaki promulgated Kenya’s new constitution.”  Diana is scheduled to be here the entire week of the event, so we will be scheduling appearances for her all over the county at schools, public meetings and press interviews.  The topic for her speech at Kids Are Heroes Day is “Peace is Possible.”  This is something that should not be missed.

This year we will also welcome the support of our local government which plans to issue an official proclamation declaring October 23rd, 2010 as “Kids Are Heroes” Day.  Ms.Jan Gardner, current County Commissioner President, has offered to send official county award certificates to all of our heroes, regardless of their location.  As I mentioned before we still haven’t hit September yet.  There are other things we are working on to make this event more special than ever.  So please stay tuned.  There’s lots more to come.