World parent

A couple of days ago I finally signed up to become a world parent for UNICEF. It feels good to have done something, but it also makes me want to do more.

I was channel surfing a while ago and Oprah happend to be on at one of the channels. The show was about the greatest gift she had ever given. She gave 1000 dollars to everybody in the audience and they had to give that money to a stranger that needed the money. The stories about what people had done with the money where amazing. One story that really got caught in my memory, was about a 75 year old black man who had never learned how to read. He had a twin brother and his mother could only afford to let one of them go to school. So his twin borther went to school and he stayed at home with his mom and she kept on praying that he would get the opportunity to also learn how to read.
It was not until Oprahs "pay it back" program started that this man got the opportunity to learn how to read. One of the women gave a teacher the money to let him sit in class with her first graders and learn to read. And when he was standing in the audience at the Oprah show, he was holding both womens hand, the tears were flowing on his cheeks, he had a big smile on his face and he was thanking the lord for answering his mothers prayers....
Just helping the people around you can be extremely meaningful. Sometimes a meaningless thing for you, can mean the world to another person....
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