Chicken Feed!

Maybe the kid goat didn't last but at least the chickens bring a smile to the children's faces! It's feeding time and the kids are loving it. Here's something you might not know. There are about 6.5 billion people in the world and some 4.5 billion of them are very poor - defined as living on less than $2 per day. Poverty is the world's greatest and most intractable problem. We get tired of hearing about it and tired of being asked for donations. So now donor fatigue is becoming a very big problem. After the huge outpouring of generosity in the wake of the Asian tsunami, followed by another mighty effort for Hurricane Katrina.....there was just nothing much left for the Kashmir earthquake...only a fraction of what was needed has been promised, and only a fraction of what was promised has been delivered. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, injured or left destitute by these natural disasters and they deserve every cent of help that we can give them....BUT remember that 4, 500,000,000 people are destitute all the time...in a million small corners of the world.



I am finding that being part of something like this is vastly more personal and rewarding than was ever the case all through the years when I pledged my few bucks to the various appeals and telethons that came around. Here you can see real results for your efforts, deal directly with the people doing the work on the ground and interact with those benefiting from it, get constant feedback on progress, and enjoy the challenge of trying to get this new hostel and school built!