5 Minutes to Change Your World was created while I was participating in the Self Expression and Leadership Program at Landmark Education. In this program you create a project that makes a difference in your community.
Around the start of this program a friend of mine came back from East Timor. He was the Security Advisor for Care Canada there. While we where walking he starts telling me that he is dealing with a bunch of people (mostly kids) who have nothing to lose, and that when someone gives them a gun, they think that it is power, and since they have nothing to lose, they use the gun.
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