Today, I had the pleasure of meeting an eight-year-old girl who doesn't need to be taught the spirit of giving.
Hayley spent the last few weeks and the first week of her summer vacation collecting goods and food for Shepherds of Good Hope. She did it by reaching out to her neighbours and area businesses where she lives.
Today, she delivered dozens of bags of clothing as well as cases of food; things like soup, coffee and bottled water.
Hayley is a special girl. Even though she's only eight, she knows there are people in our community who are going without what you and I take for granted. And so she wants to make a difference.
Hayley raised so much that we had to send out one of bigger trucks in order to get it all back to the shelter.
Hayley and her family then stopped by so that we could give them a tour of our soup kitchen and the food/grocery program.
It touches my heart when children want to help us out - either on their own or as part of their class at school.
There's a saying that society is judged by how it treats its least fortunate. (There are quite a few variations of this saying).
Well, let me just say, with children like Hayley, our society has a bright future.
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