Hi! My name is Amina, I'm 15 years old and I've been a raw vegan for almost 2 years. My journey started when I was 12 years old when I got interested in vegetarianism, due to my interest in animal rights and my dislike of finding veins in meat. After I found out about PETA, it got me interested in veganism and in a few months I was vegan. Once I became vegan I started finding out about raw foodism, mostly from one of my pen-pals. My mom and I were experiencing many health problems and becoming raw vegan seemed like the perfect solution! Since being 100% raw vegan, health problems like asthma, allergies, sinusitis, eczema, and weight problems have disappeared for me and my mom as well. Detoxing was so hard to go through, and I had lots of cravings for my favorite cooked foods!! We definitely cheated a lot in the beginning of our transitioning but we were determined enough to keep on trying and now we don't want to go back to cooked food ever again!! Freedom is not having to go to the doctors or take any medications anymore!!