This weekend, 30 supporters of the Touch A Life Foundation and the Village of Hope Orphanage met in Dallas, TX, to discuss the vision for both organizations for 2009. It's fitting, to me, that this meeting landed on the weekend celebrating the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. Amongst the many accomplishments this visionary man made throughout his lifetime, perhaps most notable was the deliverance of his "I Have a Dream" speech.
Many parallels can be drawn between Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, speech and the goals Touch A Life seeks to accomplish. Both the speechmaker and the organization desire to eradicate slavery in order to make the world a fairer, better place for all. The following quote from the famous speech struck me because of the relevance it has regarding the work Touch A Life does in Ghana, Cambodia and Vietnam:
:: With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. ::
Truly, it is only through uniting together as one that we will be able to lift up the children of surrounding nations so that we might free them from slavery, from the bonds tying them to lives of destitution and sorrow. We, too, should have a dream that one day all of our brothers and sisters across the world will finally be free, that they will finally know what it's like to live.
Rachel
(Originally posted on Monday, January 19, 2009.)
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