Face 2 Face With David Peck

Check out today’s release as Nada talks about crazy ideas, wanting to give back, making a difference and changing the world. She is a Lebanese woman, born in Dakar and raised in Nigeria working with children in Sierra Leone. Nada is focusing on supporting kids by providing them with shoes, backpacks and food supplies where needed.BiographyThe Smiling Hearts Foundation was established in 2011 by Nada Taan Mackie. She was reading a magazine article about an individual who went to South America and decided to give out shoes to impoverished children. It made Nada realize that the children in her community in Sierra Leone are in the same need as the children the man in the article was helping. She made the decision to start something and the children in her community.Nada Taan Mackie is a native African, who has lived in West Africa for most of her life. She was born and raised in Nigeria. When she moved to Lebanon for school, she met her husband and moved to Freetown, Sierra Leone. They have been living there for