Story Time

I'm currently reading Richard Stern's book The Hole in the Gospel. He is the President of World Vision and his book is FABULOUS and I recommend for everyone to read it. He has traveled more than a million miles to dozens of countries and has seen extreme poverty over and over again. 


I wanted to write what he wrote about one woman. "One seventeen-year-old mother, Saa Mamane, had brought her infant son, Sahabi Ibrahim, to see the doctors. He had been put in the tent with the sickest children. Feeding tubes were taped to his little nose, and a nurse desperately tried to find a vein to insert an IV. Her baby cried, but with no tears. He'd been vomiting for days and was severely dehydrated. When Renee (Richard's wife) asked his mother why she hadn't come for help sooner, she said that it was much too far to walk with a sick baby, and that until two days earlier, she didn't have the fifty cents required to come by car."


Now please put yourself in her shoes. Can you imagine not taking your sick child to the doctor? Or having to walk because you can't afford fifty cents for a car ride? She did get the money but it took her a couple days. We have no idea what that is like here in the US. 


If you find this sad and gloomy, then good because it is. But the positive and encouraging news is that WE can make a difference and we can help. So I encourage everyone please go to www.worldvisiongifts.org and purchase a gift to help someone like this woman or sponsor a child for only $35/month and make a huge impact on that child's life.