Le monde
Caring for
By L A U R E N D O U G L A S S | Photography by B R E N N A K N E I S S ook down at your phone, turn on your computer, or glance at any screen displaying the state of the world. You will find your heart overwhelmed and your mind flooded with the abundance of devastation and need swirling rampantly in every corner of the earth. At least, that’s what happened to me as a young woman living on the cushy coast of the spectacular Santa Rosa Beach Florida.
In the midst of my comfortable lifestyle, I found my heart aching over the insurmountable pain that circulates on such a vast scale; and so my mind began the desperate pursuit of what my greater purpose could be. You hear the numbers that represent human lives: 27 million tortured and trapped in human trafficking, 68.5 million innocent victims of war who are forced to find refuge in a foreign country, 100 million homeless children suffering on the streets, 780 million without clean water, three billion people living under the poverty line, and so on. Too many precious lives dwell in utter hopelessness.
