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As a disabled woman herself, she wants to make sure the charity and community work of people with disabilities isn't overlooked and taken for granted.

"It still says a lot about Madrid's reputation that it is not something you can take for granted that Arsenal will progress at the Bernabeu."

Thus, there are few things Westerners take for granted more than reduced child mortality, reduced death in child birth and the eradication of history’s most brutal diseases like polio and smallpox.

"When you don't have banks, you don't have access to really basic things that we take for granted," said Valerie Rivera, a certified financial planner and founder of First Gen Wealth.

The 59-year-old added: "It's simple, little things that you take for granted, but it does make a hell of an impact on our lives."