We don’t live in a fair world. We don’t even live in a particularly decent world but one that is full of hurt. There are more people alive on planet today than all other generations of human being combined. The six billion people here are facing the greatest challenges in history. There are over ten million slaves in the world, more than ever before and forty bonded laborers in India. Over a hundred million people are hungry and there are over a million tons of food thrown away in Europe alone last year. In the US, we spend five times more on cosmetics than helping the poor world.Today across the world ninety million children are laborers, many paid less than a dollar a day. Our world is in pain. We say all men are equal but that depends on where you were born. If you are born black and poor in Africa, you are not equal, you never will be equal. The oppressed do not want the crumbs off your tables when they starve.They do not want CNN cameras in their faces as they weep.They do not ask for white nurses holding up their wasted children for photographs in camps. They want equality, they want respect, they want decency.
It’s easy to be doubtful and skeptical as we look around us. ‘It’s a big world out there-all the pain in it is not my fault-,and I can not absorb all the crazy things that happen.’Sometimes the bloodiness of humanity can even leave us bored,indifferent, untouched.It is only when someone we love is in pain or afraid that we wake from our complacency. I believe that each of us has within him an energy, a thread of life, that is shared by all creation. We have within us a connection a primal spark. I have always believed it is our actions, not our thoughts, that matter. Tears have never fed a child, pity has never healed a wound. Despite our weakness, because of our frailty we can touch each other with gentleness. In a world of brokenness, we can bring laughter. Where there is trembling and loneliness, we can bring love.We were not meant to have compassions, we were meant to become compassionate.
Never forget…
We are magic, we are power, we are promise.
I would like to thank all the kind and generous donors who supported DirectAida Projects, all of you who gave from far, all of you who came out to Directaida Fundraiser Event,all of you who believe in Directaida and our partner projects.
I also would like to congratulate and wish a happy Volunteer Day to all the wonderful volunteers I met through out Kenya!!!!
"I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
Wow, very inspiring, very true! The ending quote says it so nicely… we ALL can make a difference no matter how large or how small. Here’s to many more fruitful future projects!!