Healthy Steps for Children in Cambodia
Healthy Steps for Children in Cambodia
In the last week alone I have spent $15 many times I over. I bought two birthday cards for relatives last night which cost almost $15 -- just pieces of decorated paper which will be appreciated but in the long run won't change anyone's life.
Through Daniella's effort to put 'The Shoe That Grows' on the feet of 500+ children in a village in Cambodia, these children's lives will be changed! Because so few of them have shoes, they are subject to infectious diseases and injury. Even if they can manage to get one pair of shoes, children grow so quickly that they can't afford to replace shoes as they grow.
Linda Freeman and her daughter-in-law Daniella have a goal of providing 600 pairs of 'The Shoe that Grows' which is made to last five years/five sizes to the children of Light of Future School in Cambodia when they visit in 2016.
These children have inspired me; their sheer joy at getting an education, at getting even a PENCIL in order to pursue an education, is humbling.
And I think a shoe that lasts five years is probably a better cost proposition than a piece of decorated paper; I'm betting the children of Light of Future School will find that to be the case!
More about this project from Linda here:
http://iamthriving.org/2015/10/the-shoe-that-grows-in-cambodia/
And the 501c3: www.becauseinternational.org
Review from #MyGivingStory