Thank You!

When we first launched this magazine, it was our intention to highlight some amazing humanitarians and their altruism that is being demonstrated in their projects around the world. We wanted to bring small, obscure, virtually invisible projects to light so that the rest of the world can understand the needs, the victories and struggles that these good folks endure to make their piece of the world a better place and join them. Many people have looked up from their highly amenitized lives of comfort and supported some of those projects. Many have expressed a new sense of compassion for their fellow humans that suffer daily in places that they can not escape from. Only a few have expressed a discomfort to being exposed to the suffering of the destitute. Granted, it is easier to pretend that there are not 785 million hungry people in the world, mostly little children. It is rattling to think about child soldiers in Africa, terrorists aiming rocket launchers at a cruise ship that might be the one you vacation on. Human trafficking is closer to home than you ever thought possible. In Peru, a tourist hiking through the mountains may lose their kidneys in an ambush by black marketeers. Many families in 3rd world countries sell their daughters as "housekeepers" to survive. Children under age five go blind for lack of vitamin A tabs that cost just 20 cents.

Thank you, and you..and you..for your compassion to raise awareness, for seeking out workable solutions, for sharing this magazine with your co-workers and family, donating funds and material support, writing to your elected officials and getting behind NGOs who are considered the urgent first line of defense to deter and re-direct the focus of those, who otherwise commit detestable actions against humanity, with our humanitarian efforts. Education, eliminating desperation and destitution, offering gender equality opportunities, health care for easily preventable diseases are just some of the solutions you have so generously made possible. Every act has a ripple effect toward solutions. THANK YOU! AND YOU ....... AND YOU ...... AND YOU ..... AND YOU........AND YOU!