[Women-of-openstack] #IStandWithAhmed

Blanca Mancilla blancalmancilla at gmail.com
Wed Sep 16 19:53:16 UTC 2015


What an extraordinary initiative!

Spreading the word now!
bm

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Niki Acosta (nikacost) <nikacost at cisco.com>
wrote:

> Women of OpenStack:
>
> You probably heard about Ahmed Mohamed, the Texas 9th grader and robotics
> enthusiast who brought a homemade clock to school hoping to impress
> teachers. Instead, he was arrested for a bomb hoax and interrogated without
> his parents.
>
> I was compelled to help him, and got some encouragement from a few folks
> on Twitter to put together a scholarship fund campaign on GoFundMe. I just
> spoke with Ahmed’s sister. She’s young, along with being gracious and
> incredibly confident. Smart girl! We’re now set up so donations go straight
> to them.
>
> If you were moved by this story as I was, please consider donating and
> sharing this link with your social networks.
>
> #IStandWithAhmed
>
> For links to full story and/or to make a donation, please visit this link:
>
> http://www.gofundme.com/istandwithahmed
>
> *Niki Acosta*
> Cloud Evangelist
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