Author: Doug Wright

Chantelle didn’t give up

By Doug Wright    Chantelle Brown Young was diagnosed with the skin condition vitiligo   Chantelle Brown Young, now known as Winnie Harlow, was born in Toronto in 1994. At a young age, she was diagnosed with the skin condition vitiligo, an immunity irregularity which attacks melanin production causing de-pigmentation of the skin. Of Jamaican ancestry, Harlow’s deep brown skin is marked with patches of white, where her natural skin colour doesn’t show.   Because of her unusual colouring, she was mocked and bullied throughout her childhood and adolescence. She was called a ‘cow’ and a ‘zebra’ and other...

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Haben Never Gave Up

Haben Girma graduated from Harvard Law School. What makes this accomplishment singularly extraordinary is that Haben Girma is both deaf and blind Haben Girma graduated from Harvard Law School, which many people would see as a colossal achievement in its own right. What makes this accomplishment singularly extraordinary is that Haben Girma is both deaf and blind. Born in California in 1988, Haben shares her disability with her brother, but has never let it slow her down. She was able to take advantage of technology to help her, including having a digital Braille device which enables her to read...

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Ksenia never gave up

  Ksenia Bezuglova was born in Russia in 1983. When she was in her early twenties, she was involved in a serious car accident and from then on, was confined to a wheelchair. She was pregnant at the time, and doctors recommended that she terminate the pregnancy. Ksenia refused and went on to have a healthy daughter.   She said later in an interview, that her pregnancy helped her get through the difficult initial time of adapting to life with a disability, that there was no time to think about what she had lost because the baby was still...

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Overcoming adversity to be the best

By Doug Wright Overcoming adversity started early in Victoria Duval’s life. Today, she is an American professional tennis player. But back when she was seven, she was held at gunpoint in her Aunty’s home in Haiti during a robbery. That was the trigger for her mother to take her and her siblings to America. Growing up in Atlanta, she worked hard at her tennis. She went professional at the age of seventeen in 2012, making it to the semi-finals of the Junior US Open in her first year. She made more than $230,000 in prize money over two years...

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Madeline Stuart, willpower & never giving up!

By Doug Wright When you have a dream, the only thing to prevent you from reaching it is your willpower and your ability to ‘never give up.’ Madeline Stuart from Brisbane, Australia was born with Down Syndrome. Most of us would imagine that Madeline’s career options would be limited. But Madeline wanted to be a model and nothing was going to stop her. Madeline was inspired to try modelling after watching a fashion parade. Her mother, far from dissuading her and telling her she could never do it, helped her to keep to a healthy eating schedule (many children...

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