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May 5, 2006
"The sound of children playing is a universal sound of peace." --Rev. Heng Sure
Soccer Balls for a Better Future
He'd won 4 Olympic Golds, broken 11 world records, and was 25. So he retires?! Speed skater Johann Olav Koss had a much deeper outlook. “You’re very focused on yourself, you’re very narrow-minded and your world is limited. At a certain point you want to see the greater meaning—the greater whole.” And so he went to Eritrea with a plane full of soccer balls, a week after President Afewerki had made an international appeal for food aid. Koss asked him what he thought about his unexpected and unusual contribution to Eritrea's children, and the President said, 'This is the most beautiful gift we have ever received. Finally we are being seen as human beings. We are more than mouths to feed, more than people dying who must be kept alive. We are people. We, too, have dreams and we hope for a better future.'
BE THE CHANGE
Give a child you know, or perhaps don't know, some sports equipment, a toy, a game, or any other tool of play.
