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The Beginning
12 y/o's goal: $800,000 for Malawi
4 years ago, Jaako, a 8 y/o boy, living in Canada, started raising $800,000 for the poor and hungry children of Malawi. What on earth could he be thinking? Not of himself, that's for sure.
In June of 2006 Jaako told his parents he wanted to go to Africa and help the poor.
"That's a nice idea." Jaako's parents answered, thinking this was a good goal for the future, when Jaako grew up.
"When can I go to Africa?"
"Some day." For many parents that would be the end of it. Everyone knows that you have to grow up, take special training, join a charity group to help the poor. Jaako persisted.
"When Jaako said he would need a note to take to school becuase he would be away for more than a week," Sue, Jaako's mom explains, "I knew he meant to go to Africa now." After discussing it with Jaako more throughly and with each other, Sue and Andrew (Jaako's dad) agreed that Jaako needed to go.
So plans began.
