by Quentin Langley
Time magazine seems to be struggling this year to find a Person of the Year. Unusually, there is no stand out candidate. This blog suggests they consider Martha Payne.
That Martha has raised enough money to build 17 kitchens in Malawi, for people who would otherwise have no access to a hot meal, is remarkable enough. But Martha is also symbolic of the way in which global power structures are being turned upside down. In mere hours – hours which Martha spent in class in her primary school – her local council was forced into a humiliating climbdown over their plans to silence her blog.
For a day, Martha Payne and her NeverSeconds blog were trending on Twitter as people all over the world demanded that Argyll and Bute Council back down. This was a nine-year-old girl. All she wanted to do was blog about her school lunches and raise money for people in Malawi. It took just half a day for the council to surrender to the inevitable and back down.
Since then, Martha has travlled to Malawi and seen for herself the good that her Just Giving page has done.
The world has changed this year, and Martha Payne is a symbol of those radical changes.
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