Recently, in real time (2012) I had the privilege to travel to Ghana to work with the staff at Street Girls Aid, a non-profit oorganization working with street children. You can read about some of the lessons learned at www.csksghana.blogspot.com This was our second trip there in 2012 to help develop capacity within the leadership at Street Aid so that they can continue to serve the 61,000 street children living, working, and sleeping on the streets of Accra, Ghana. As usual, the experience changed me in ways of which books are written. The undertaking was made possible by many people who supported and continue to support projects or initiatives that help nurture and grow sustainability within organizations in developing countries. There is no way possible to thank each and every person, although I have been diligently trying, the numbers are significant and many of the donors and supporters anonymous.
The staff at Street Girls Aid sent us back to the United States with personal thank yous written by them and addressed to the Presidents of the ten Rotary Clubs that financially supported the grant that made it possible to conduct this work, they also sent a variety of other thank yous for us to deliver. I in turn made up a thank you flyer that has been sent or handed personally to another 60 people, but I know I am still missing countless people - so I have decided to post the thank you here.
Giving thanks is as powerful as giving gifts. In this case, I wanted people to know that their support not only made a difference, but that it made an impact...on more people's lives than we will ever know, like a ripple on one side of the world that becomes a wave that can lift a surfer. So today I simply and humbly give thanks to whomever has given. Period.
We will never know what ripple we made that will lift someone up somewhere else, we do it all the time without any thought of having to know outcome. For creating that ripple - THANK YOU!
❦ Give thanks to those who give. Here’s how I am thanking those who recently supported me:
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