Remember the girl we are trying to rescue? She's a beautiful little girl with Down Syndrome. If she is not rescued by next month, when she turns 5, she will be transferred to a mental institution forever. Patti talks more on the link I gave you. What life will be like for Olga.
Why save just one? I look at my daughter and I imagine if something were to happen to me. Say she had no living relatives and was put in an orphanage. What if she had a "flaw" that prevented people from choosing her from the others? What if people did want to rescue her but didn't have the funds? What if she wasn't chosen and her fate was that of a mental institution? Just because she was too old for the orphanage?
What if it was my daughter? Your daughter/son? Just saving one means so much to that one. Of course we can't save them all. But if we worked to save that one, it matters to her.
Anyway, Patti has an idea about reaching out to local radio stations. Wouldn't it be neat if we all wrote Dr. Laura an email with the same link? They read the emails every day.
Lets work together!!
Click here to email Dr. Laura!
The little girl's name is: Olga
Link to her donation page: http://reecesrainbow.org/olga-r-3
Remember, the amount shown so far is not the correct amount. Patti is updating her site daily of the correct amount added up.
1 comment:
Reminds me of this story:
One day an old man was walking along the beach. It was low tide, and the sand was littered with thousands of stranded starfish that the water had carried in and then left behind. The man began walking very carefully so as not to step on any of the beautiful creatures. Since the animals still seemed to be alive, he considered picking some of them up and putting them back in the water, where they could resume their lives.
The man knew the starfish would die if left on the beach's dry sand but he reasoned that he could not possibly help them all, so he chose to do nothing and continued walking.
Soon afterward, the man came upon a small child on the beach who was frantically throwing one starfish after another back into the sea. The old man stopped and asked the child, "What are you doing?"
"I'm saving the starfish," the child replied.
"Why waste your time?... There are so many you can't save them all so what does is matter?" argued the man.
Without hesitation, the child picked up another starfish and tossed the starfish back into the water... "It matters to this one," the child explained.
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