We are fortunate, aren't we?
We all have a roof over our heads, a warm bed to sleep in, food in the fridge and cupboards, clean clothes on our back, water to drink and wash in everyday and a family doctor just a phone call away. And those are just considered our 'necessities'.
However, that's not the story for everyone in the world. In third world countries most families live on less then a dollar a day. I don't want to sound like a World Vision advertisement, but it really makes you think.
I had the opportunity to speak with a wonderful woman during an exhibition at the Emmanuel Convention Centre last week. The Norris Arm native has been working with sponsorship children in Thailand for the past 33 years - where families live on less then $3 a day and where gas is approximately the same cost as it is here.
Can you even imagine?
Can you do without your daily drive-thru coffee? How about that muffin or chocolate bar?
If you could refrain from that for one day - that's all it takes to sponsor a child. Just a dollar a day. If you turn your coffee money into sponsorship money you could make a huge difference in the life of a child who is living in poverty, can't obtain an education or doesn't have access to medical services.
After speaking about sponsorship and the hardships the children have to encounter and overcome, I drove back to the office with a heavy heart and with a pamphlet in my hand of a little girl who needed a sponsor in Ghana, Africa. She was one of eight on display at the exhibition table - a Grade 1 student who loves to read poems and who is living at a Charity Home, after both her parents and grandfather passed away.
I headed home and after discussing it with my other half, we decided to sponsor that little girl. For just a dollar a day we will be sending her to school, providing her with clothes, food, water and medicine.
That is a feeling I can't begin to describe. To know that the change I never use in my wallet can be used to feed, clothe and ensure medical care for a child is something that I am encouraging everyone, who can, to do.
If not, I just hope you continuously count your blessings.
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