What brings this truth home, for me and for so many others, is child sponsorship through Compassion. Compassion’s emphasis on the personal relationship between sponsor and child, with the encouragement to write letters–often–and even to bring sponsor and child together, in person, when possible…. Therein lies the difference, I think, between merely giving money and seeing the life. I doubt that even child sponsorship, through an organization that does not encourage personal relationships, can do so well.

It is both a narrowing of focus to see one life, one child, one future, one hope, and a broadening of vision to see that so many more real children need the same opportunities.

That is why I like to visit, although I still will not understand everything at least I am not still stuck in the house “looking out the window” at poverty. I tend to think I like to be in the mix, because it is more fun there

I’ve really enjoyed reading Morgan’s blog. I think my favourite entry was Through Dessiray’s Eyes.