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Friday, February 6, 2009

You can help throw a Starfish!

There's an old story with many variations but basically it goes-
a boy that was throwing starfish in the sea. A man told him, "you are wasting your time, You can't throw all the starfish back in the sea, what difference does it make?" The boy picked up another starfish and tossed it in the water and said, "It made a difference to that one."

The is a woman who went to live in China that started a foster home that she calls The Starfish home. She says in her own words she is in the business of saving lives. She takes high risk orphans from the orphanages that just don't have the time to help them and nutures them as sees to it that they are healthy well fed and loved.

I asked her how she pays for it all, she told me she used her savings and then she relies on private donation. This woman has my utmost respect.

She just started another foster home just for cleft lip and cleft palate children. She is hoping to find 80 people to sponsor a child for $25 a month.

Would you like to throw a starfish back in?

You can read about her fanastic journey and the lives she is changing on her blog:
http://chinesestarfish.blogspot.com/

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