People do help
Posted on April 14, 2007 - Filed Under Punch Forum |
Ms. Ric
14 April 2007
Mr. Oriel,
I really am not looking forward to exchanging these kinds of post with you. I’d like to think I’m better than that. But let me just clarify one thing. That last post of mine was NOT meant to criticize the HAVEN, far from it. You really do not need to educate me on what they do nor do you need to tell me or anyone else on this board for that matter to start DOING.
And since you listed an array of your good deeds, let me just give you a sample of what other forum punchers like myself DO. I volunteer six weeks of my summer vacation working for Big Sister’s Organization here in my county. Last Christmas vacation, I volunteered my whole two weeks in New Orleans, teaching winter sessions because some students are STILL behind from being out of school for such a long time during Katrina.
For 180 days I volunteer one-two hours after school in my local library and/or homework lab helping kids with homework or reading stories out loud. For one weekend a year, I organize my neighborhood “Block Garage Sale” and donate the proceeds to a local halfway house for battered women. For an hour every Saturday, I vacuum and dust the pews at my local church. Last Saturday, I climbed ladders hanging garlands around the church, hid eggs for children to find after the mass, and cleaned up after the children on Sunday.
And I’m sure I’m just one of many on this board who I’m sure DOES something to give back to their community, be it the community they live in or back home.
Mr. Oriel, I believe in people. I believe that they DO what they can WHEN they can. It would be really presumptuous for ANY of us to assume otherwise.
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