A Visitor Opens A Little Girl's Eyes

Several weeks ago, my sister and her family had visitor. A woman knocked on their door, asking if they had any work for her. Due to injuries she hadn't been able to provide for her kids, so she was going door to door looking for work. Well, my sister didn't have any work for her, but my seven-year-old niece's heart was broken by this woman's plight, and she asked her mom if she could give the money in her piggy bank to this woman. And then my younger niece wanted to give her piggy bank money as well.

After the woman left, my older niece asked her mom about being poor. She couldn't understand why their moms and dads couldn't take care of them. And again my niece's heart was broken. She just had to know what she could do. My sister suggested that they collect some canned food to take to the local mission, and my niece suggested that they ask the other kids in her class at school to donate cans as well.

Well, my niece's teacher loved the idea, but needed to run it past the principal, who loved the idea so much that he opened it up to the whole school. My niece's class alone collected more than 250 cans of food for those in need, just because a little girl's heart was broken by the idea that some moms and dads can't provide for their children like they'd like to.

Liz J.