The Box of Hope By Aditi Gandhi
‘The journey of a thousand miles begins with a small step.’ This is the story of how this year’s recipient of the UN Global Citizen of the World award started her journey . . . Nabila was reading a book, sitting by the window of her villa in Dubai. The gentle and warm-hearted twelve-year-old, who lived with her parents and grandfather, was looking forward to school after the long spring break. The next day during lunchbreak, as her friends were chatting about all the fun they had during the vacation, Nabila’s gaze was fixated on the old school gardener sitting nearby under a tree.
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