When Scott Keffer (the Creator and CEO of The Donor Motivation Program) and his son, Josh, who was just ten years old, made the first of two trips to Mexico to build a housing structure for a family in need, they met folks who lived on postage stamp-sized plots of land. Each family would put something on it to live in: a cardboard box, a piece of a trailer, a discarded garage door, whatever. It became their “house,” House, huh? Here, we’d call some of it trash. There, it was their house.
In North America, we live a higher standard of living than 99% of the world.
You don’t have to leave the country to experience this, either.
I am fortunate. Most are less fortunate. Many times, not a result of anything they’ve done, just when and where they were born.
“To whom much is given, much is expected.”
Here’s the really great thing: around the world or around the corner, just a little can mean a lot! The work you do means a lot.
“A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.”
Publilius Syrus
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