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I'm Alanzo. I'm from paru and last year I won a scholarship that changed my life completely.
I have the chance to come study to one of the most prestigious boarding schools in Norway,
through one of the biggest education initiatives in the world.
Now I am living together with representatives from all over the globe.
But among all, there is more than nine nationalities, there is one person that is particularly special.
He's Edwin from Nicaragua.
From the first time we met we agreed that in some ways we were the same but also so different.
Edwin is special. He wakes up and goes to school every morning as everyone here does, but his life is now completely different compared to what it was before.
In January of 2005, one month short of his fifteenth birthday, Edwin lost both hands, his right eye and most of the side of his left eye.
From that moment his life changed forever.
If you are wondering, Edwin what are your objectives? Is it just studying and Studying?
No, my objective is prepare myself and with all the knowledge I will get,
(and I hope it will be a lot)
I'll share it with my people. And who is my people.
My Nicaraguan people and also my international people that I have in many places.
And how am I planning to do it?
Helping in many ways, like teaching or showing activities or just finding they way.
So they can be involved in what I learned. So, in that way I could actually feel completely happy.
So then I think my life will be completely different, it's different already
There's a significant change already.
Edwin told me that his life is not the same anymore. He knows that education is changing his life, in a way that nothing else could ever do.
I didn't want to keep this inspiring story for myself, because I believe that if everyone recognizes the importance of education in making the impossible possible and change life entirely,
We could have more people like Edwin knowing that there is an exciting future waiting for us.
Education changed his life, and right now he just decided to take the next step, change all our lives, as he just did with mine.