$517. maureen hopes to become a doctor. if maureen is lucky, she will come here to the united states at some point during her medical training. and if we re lucky, the people who tonight believe donald trump is right and don t want anyone like maureen to come here will someday change their minds, see the light, and understand how lucky we would be to have her here. now, i know how naive that can sound, but during most of martin luther king jr. s years of crusading for civil rights, it seemed impossible that he would not just defeat segregation but change people s mind about segregation, make them stop believing in it. martin luther king jr. never gave up on changing people s
maureen vester is a second grader who we introduced you to last month on this program. she has a desk in school now because you sent her that desk. the contribution of this fine audience to kids in need of desks have now sent hundreds of desks to kids in malawi who have never had desks. when maureen is ready to go to college, the kind fund will be there to help her with a scholarship for her high school tuition. you contributed $16,845 last year bringing our total since we started the program to 16,845, $517. maureen hopes to become a doctor. if maureen is lucky, she will come here to the united states at some point during her medical training. and if we re lucky, the people who tonight believe donald trump is right and don t want anyone like maureen to come here will someday change their minds, see the light, and understand how lucky we would be to have her