Who do not have hands to give … In many occasions we have been asked to give our support to the Rotary Foundation, either to participate on a project granted by our Foundation, or to make a contribution to one of the available Funds. When doing monetary contributions, we made them with two certainties: that every cent given has the right destination to support a project and to administer it and that its use will be diligently monitored. While participating on an humanitarian project, it will be necessarily directed to a sustainable development of human beings and by that reason there will be continuity on its effects. We may not perceive immediately the totality of the effects of this project in the transformation of our lives or in other’s lives, but certainly we will benefit in some way by the chain reaction that the project will produce. It is what we usually call as “The Boomerang Effect”, which means that all the good that we do will somehow come back to us. We will than giving our time, our effort and our work to soften or mitigate the suffering of those in need. This take us to a short story which try to explain that we must give thought to situations we may fall in with: “An expert construction foreman was in the imminence of retirement after many years of being a role model in what he did. He was then asked by the owner of the construction company to do a last job: build a big and beautiful house in a privileged area of the city.
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