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Alicia Kamran, 12, shows all the address of a acclimatized developed as she addresses the army at her fundraiser.(Photo: Special to The Register)
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An e-mail from a 12-year-old showed up in my inbox a brace of months ago. “Ma'am, I am a seventh grader at Bergman Academy, and I am a apprentice philanthropist at the aforementioned time,” it said. She had already aloft added than $3,000 for Blank Children's Hospital, and had a fundraiser advancing up.
“Right, and I’m the Easter Bunny,” I mused. I wasn’t acclimated to actuality addressed so formally; I doubtable an developed was abaft this. And I don’t usually address about fundraisers because it would seem unfair to distinct one out.
So I confused on to accession email added archetypal of what I get. This one argued that a candidate for appointment I'd accounting about was amenable for the killings of non-Muslims because of his Muslim faith.
The 12-year-old Alicia Kamran doesn’t aback bottomward easily.
Alicia Kamran assuming a Bollywood ball at her Sept. 17 fundraiser. (Photo: Rekha Basu)
A few weeks afterwards came a buzz alarm from her mother about her daughter's fundraiser at Rollins Mansion, for which she had gotten contributions from five car dealers and assorted local vendors. I appropriate a affection biographer would be a bigger fit, and offered some names.
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Next came a adorned allurement to the Sept. 17 event, hand-delivered. That was followed by an email from Alicia Kamran requesting a response. The blow would be academic and hors d’oeuvres would be served, she wrote.
By now my skepticism was overtaken by curiosity. I wrote aback adage I’d be there.
“Ma'am, you will not accept how aflame I am to apprehend that!” came an about actual reply.
Pulling into the Rollins Abode lot that Sunday afternoon, I took in the fancy cars and the well-dressed man administering cartage into an overflow lot. I followed some alluringly clad women into a allowance with appetizers and a bashful bargain of items donated by the flush Silver Fox and Sisters boutiques, amid others. The abode amplitude was donated, too.
In accession allowance with guests built-in at tables, a poised Alicia, tall, arresting and dressed like a cine star, accustomed the crowd. She explained why she was adopting money for an Apple computer for the Blank Children's Hospital's hematology/oncology center, area her adolescent sister Elisheba had been treated, alpha back she was 1 1/2 years old.
Elisheba had been rushed to the hospital in a crisis acquired by a curtailment of white claret cells. She began accepting adamant infusions, a years-long process, but didn't acknowledge until the fourth one.
Elisheba, 8 (shown with a performer), is Alicia's adolescent sister and her afflatus for acknowledging patients at Blank Children's Hospital. (Photo: Special to The Register)
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"I capital to acknowledge all the doctors and nurses that helped my sister recover, but additionally advice added families activity through the aforementioned affliction and pain,” Alicia wrote in a fund-raising letter. So at 10, she launched an alignment alleged Fite Cure, adopting $1,800 by designing and selling shirts, shoes, adornment and added stuff, and active lemonade stands. At the clandestine Bergman Academy, area Alicia attends average school, she said acceptance participate in monthly altruistic projects based on the Jewish abstraction of Tzedakah. (The school used to be affiliated with the Jewish faith).
She was aiming for $2,000 at this fundraiser, hoping a computer would abstract adolescent patients adeptness aching treatments. But the absolute attack brought in $5,073 on her online site.
Including her antecedent fundraising, she had aloft about $7,000 for Blank.
I abstruse that Alicia's parents, Shezad and Saima Kamran, came from Pakistan, area they were allotment of a Christian minority, so baby that Saima (the mother) accelerating from academy never accepting had a Christian friend. Afterwards a car blow took the lives of Alicia’s father's parents and two of his three siblings, he confused to the U.S. to appear medical school. He alternate briefly to Pakistan to accept an abiding alliance to Saima. They'd met alone two canicule afore the engagement. She joined him in 2000 in North Dakota, area we was accomplishing his residency.
Alicia has visited Pakistan alone already but considers herself bicultural — which was axiomatic from the abnormal mix of cultures at the fundraiser. A pastor from Hope Lutheran Church said a adoration and young musicians sang angelic Christian songs to an admirers of Hindus, Muslims and Christians. Children from a Christian faith-based ball academy alleged Ball a Cross, including Alicia, performed ball numbers. She additionally performed some Bollywood ones to Indian music. And she called the entire event "Scootah" afterwards her admired hip hop song.
In accession to all these activities, Alicia aftermost year won a President's Award for Education Excellence for her grades, earning a certificate active by Barack Obama. She thinks she affiliated some of her father's math and science aptitude and wants to be a surgeon. She said she doesn’t absorb time on video amateur or amusing media, admitting the ancestors has alone up its TV-free aphorism by authoritative allowance for casual Friday black movies.
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Saima says her daughter’s adeptness to approach adult strangers for money aloof comes from conviction. “Alicia has accord for others,” she said. “We absent ancestors and we adored Elisheba and we ambition we can save added families.”
But the mother acutely plays an important acknowledging role, active her babe around, accessory all her contest and blame her back she needs encouragement. “We’re not an abnormal family,” Saima added modestly. “All these things our mothers did for us.”
No, not all mothers, or fathers, by a continued shot. But those who accept the time and agency to be so complex can do a lot for their children's futures. And for added children’s back they affliction to. And so, it turns out, can kids.
Rekha Basu is an assessment columnist for The Des Moines Register. Contact: rbasu@dmreg.com Follow her on Twitter @RekhaBasu and at Facebook.com/ColumnistRekha. Her book, "Finding Her Voice: A accumulating of Des Moines Register columns about women's struggles and triumphs in the Midwest," is accessible at ShopDMRegister.com/FindingHerVoice
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