"Parents should teach their children the value and right use of time. Teach them that to do something which will honor God and bless humanity is worth striving for. Even in their early years they can be humanitarians for God."-- 

Not all are called to personal labor in foreign fields, but all can do something by their prayers and their gifts to aid the humanitarian work.

Poverty and the World Reality

Poverty is the number one killer in the world. (British Medical Journal) Six million children under the age of 5 die as a result of hunger and malnutrition every year. (UNICEF)

 

Every day 30,000 people die from extreme poverty. (World Health Organization)

 

Every three seconds a child dies from a preventable disease. (Oxfam) It’s estimated that for every year a child stays in school, 10% is added to their annual earning potential.

 

Poverty and Haiti’s Reality

Haiti has been known as “the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.” This fact plus silence translate into death of thousands of innocent Haitians. The statistics are too alarming:

 

• Haiti is the third hungriest nation in the world, behind Somalia and Afghanistan.
• Dr. Paul Farmer indicated that “health conditions in Haiti are among the worst in the   

world.”

 

 Henry David Thoreau Life's most persistent and urgent question is, "What are you doing for others?"

The Dalai Lama "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

 
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."
Mother Teresa

 

"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do."
Helen Keller “

 

I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them - there's only us.”
Oprah Winfrey "