Can’t Do Everything? Do Something.

Taped to my computer is the picture of a small girl in a ragged blue dress.  I first saw her in a huge trash dump in India where she lives, busily searching for something her father could sell… or she could eat. 

I tried to talk to her, but she stared in silence with her huge brown eyes.  Then I blurted out the question I ask of children everywhere:  “What do you want to be when you grow up?”

The little girl continued to stare.  As I turned to walk away, she whispered, “I can’t be anything.”

The world might look at that little one, standing ragged and barefoot in the garbage dump with a tattered collection bag over her frail shoulder, and agree with her.  But they are wrong.  Two Christian Indian women have started a school in the dump, and I’ve seen the options education can open up.  Donors support the women.  Other donors send school supplies.  Caring people in diverse places pray for both the teachers and the children.

None of us need do everything.  We only need to do our part.

Blessed Christmas!

Tags: 21st century abolitionist, Blessings in India, Christmas giving, empowerment, Forgotten Girls, India

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