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Imagine for a second a place where color does not exist. Imagine a place where everyone lives in a house. Imagine a place where everyone one has a job and violence does not exist. Imagine a place where everything seems; familiar, homely, and secure. How far away do you think that place is from your communities today? Every single day, in every single country there are people who cannot afford and do not get simple basic necessities. No matter the weather, freezing rain or blazing sun, there was a lady, by the store, who I would pass every Sunday on my way to church. Every Sunday I saw her she would ask the same question. “Do you have any change to spare?” would she have been anywhere else how much more she would have received. The sight of her each Sunday made me think about all the people in the world without basic needs such as such as clean water, nutrition, health care, clothing and shelter. “By donating a relatively small amount of money, you could save a child's life today. “How many times have you toned out that commercial or skipped over an article about people in n...

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