Over 1000 blogs are celebrating Ada Lovelace day today:
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology…We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines…We’re not just interested in hardcore ninja programmers, but any woman who creates, invents, or uses any technology in an innovative way. Feel free to interpret it as widely as you like. http://findingada.com/
Here at CTVotersCount we are recognizing Marla Ludwig a long time friend and former co-worker. Marla is an unassuming data storage support expert with a day job to keep the “plumbing” working and avoiding data disasters for a very large insurance company. That would be enough, yet Marla is also known to the rest of the world as “The Backpackin’ Granny”. She spends her vacations transforming a small village in Ghana. She has built a library, brought water purification, and is now building a school.
Nobody makes a bigger mistake than (s)he who did nothing
because (s)he could only do a little
PURPOSE: Bright Star Vision is a secular grassroots organization whose purpose is to create a world in which children are free from harm and disease; a world in which they are educated confident and motivated; a world in which all children have clean water, food in their stomachs, shoes on their feet, smiles on their faces, and joy in their hearts.
Bright Star Vision is a grassroots support organization that originated in 2005 when a woman named Marla Ludwig decided to visit the African Country of Ghana for a vacation with no more than just her backpack earning her the nickname “Backpackin’ Granny” . When asked by a friend whether she would consider bringing some books or supplies to some of the underprivileged there, she initially overlooked the idea. But upon further evaluation, she stopped wondering “Why?” and began to think “Why Not” This action led to the outcome of her single-handedly sponsoring a village in need in the Volta Region of Ghana.
Bright Star Vision is the result of one woman’s vision. The name for the organization was inspired by Marla’s dream of a bright star shining over the Dalive Village, as well as the children’s enthusiasm and eagerness to read, learn, and do well in school upon being provided with books, school resources, and student sponsorships.
For more information: http://www.brightstarvision.net/index.html
