My Thinking – Victoria Dunford

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

January 19, 2020January 19, 2020 by Victoria Dunford

I was different. I’d always been described that way. Someone would tell me: ‘you want too much from life. Be content with what you have,’ […]

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Never Give Up!

August 2, 2019August 2, 2019 by Victoria Dunford

Oh, yes! I was tempted to give up on an almost daily basis, and I often felt I didn’t have the strength to carry on. […]

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A Day in My Life

June 30, 2019August 2, 2019 by Victoria Dunford

Whether I’m in my house on the Isle of Wight, at the Phoenix Centre in Riscani, or my mother’s house in the village of Mihaileni, […]

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Happy New Year 2019

January 1, 2019August 1, 2019 by Victoria Dunford

As we are reflecting between the years, we take time to say Thank you and set new goals for a year ahead.

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10 lessons I have learned by 34

March 1, 2017August 1, 2019 by Victoria Dunford

10 lessons I’ve learned in my 35 years: 1. Change starts with every one of us This is my motto and I think about it […]

A Force of nature

I had the pleasure of meeting Victoria and John in 2014. In Victoria, it soon became evident that I was dealing with a force of nature. Here is someone, I thought, who embodies all that’s best in humanity. Frankly, I am blessed with many in my circle of friends and acquaintances who answer that description. What most of them don’t have, however, that Victoria does have – and in abundance – is the will to breath life into her vision, and the determination to subdue whatever obstacles might stand between her and its fulfillment. In such a confrontation, I could see, the obstacle has no chance.

Together, Victoria and John each possess qualities that make the other unconquerable and, in those rare instances when they need reminding what it’s all for, they only need a glance into the eyes of a disabled child, and the vision, like the phoenix, is startled to life from the ashes of discouragement, frustration, and exhaustion, to rise again, and again, and again.

David Crossman – a Bestselling author of A Terrible Mercy