1000 Flowers for the Planet - #8 Care for Children
It's a shame to have to even state this one, but there it is - we need to be reminded to care for children. All of us can do it. There are many opportunities. Apart from the obvious of looking after your own children to the best of your ability, we can watch out for other people's children too. It may be as simple as watching your language when children are around, or being aware that they are watching you if you choose to break the law, or something as seemingly trivial as seeing you walk against the lights at a crossing may give them ideas to follow suit - unsafely.
Then there's the bigger stuff. Children all around the world are in desperate need of assistance. Some are suffering from poverty, war, famine or abuse. You may be able to sponsor a child overseas, or even spend time overseas volunteering at an orphanage, for example. Maybe a donation to the organisation that you feel does the best job aiding children. Do what you can.
Even concentrating on caring for your own children as well as you can is a good start.
The Princess Royal has been President of Save the Children in the UK since 1970. That seems like a rather good stamp of approval for that organisation. Find out more for yourself at www.savethechildren.org.uk or for Aussies at www.savethechildren.org.au
Children are our future and they deserve to inherit a healthy planet.
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Mum & I have knitted for the "Guardian Angel" program, through Guardian Pharmacies, for years. It was run in partnership(?) with World Vision for a long time, sending the children's garments we knitted all over the world. For the last few years the garments have been distributed around Australia. Mum & I smile to think of how many children, here & abroad, are warmed by something we made! Society is judged by the way we treat our weakest, our poorest, our youngest and oldest. I try to do my bit all round.
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