Then there is this little girl.....
Little Miss Eva decided that she wanted to have a snack stand at the garage sale. I told her it was an AWESOME idea....but that she could only keep a small portion of the money. The rest of the money had to be donated to a charitable cause of her choice.
After some thought she decided to donate it to "children that don't have things they need"...so I decided the American Red Cross would be a good fit and it could be used in relief efforts. Then she heard about a local radio station that was raising money for child abuse prevention. She asked me what child abuse was.
That's a tough one to explain to a 5 year old.
After our discussion about it she decided THAT is where her money should go. We called the radio station and got the address....bought our snacks....and set up her stand. We wrote "donations only" on her sign, but I had to chuckle because Eva kept telling everyone that everything was $1 (even a little bag of chips)....the thing that got me is that people gladly handed it over! That little girl was WORKIN' IT!!!
She sat at her stand for 2 days and in the end she raised $70 for child abuse prevention!
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
--William James
2 comments:
That is really precious Jamie... Eva is such a special little girl!
Such a caring heart....She comes by it honestly from her Mommy & Daddy! What a special lesson, Especially how she explained it to me...Yes, there were tears!
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