On a personal level, it is encouraging to see such a powerful display of one person pressing for such a change. Being yourself and being committed to yourself can make a huge difference. One person can change the world. Way to go, Martha!
Martha Payne may only be 9-years-old, but she is already a world-renowned food blogger.
In a preamble to his fascinating TEDTalk about what governments can learn from open-source programming, Clay Shirky told Payne’s inspirational story.
In April of 2012, Scottish schoolgirl Payne started the blog NeverSeconds.blogspot.co.uk, which documents her school dinners (otherwise known as school lunches in the United States) with ratings like “number of mouthfuls” and “pieces of hair” found in food. The idea was to raise money for the charity Mary’s Meals, while at the same time showing the world the low nutritional value of school meals.
The blog quickly picked up fans. But on June 14, readers of NeverSeconds were greeted with a distressing post.
“This morning in maths I got taken out of class by my head teacher and taken to her office. I was told that I could not take any…
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