Example of a Story Promoting a Cause

Megan didn’t have an idea of what happened to her

mother and didn’t know a father. She grew up with her

grandmother in a tiny house. When we once visited the

house, the queue of people we met seemed endless.

There were so many people in such a small place.

But there seemed to be much love.

Megan attended an aftercare centre, run by a charity,

which is where we met her. She had a charming

personality, full of happiness and enthusiasm, but her

appearance was shabby. She was thin, her clothes

were worn, and her entire appearance one of physical

neglect.

As we got to know her, we could see this ten-year-old

had potential. She just loved to show off her gymnastic

skills. Her tall, skinny body managed some very

graceful gymnastic moves. When I asked her about it, I

learned that it was all self-taught.

My heart yearned to create an opportunity for her to

receive proper coaching in gymnastics, but who would

fund it? The crowd of poor people in the tiny house

certainly did not have the funds to pay for such luxuries -

they barely had enough money for healthy food.

Have you seen the opera singer, Susan

Boyle’s original audition on Britain’s Got

Talent?

Everyone in the audience looked at her sceptically, for

she had this old-fashioned appearance of an ordinary

person from a simple background.

But when she opened her mouth, the scene changed.

Everyone was awed by her talent to sing. Since then

her life has changed to that of a singing star.

a child to develop into what she is now?

It’s not clear at what age she started to sing.

Being the youngest of ten children, the daughter of a

miner and a shorthand typist, her parents thought she

had been briefly deprived of oxygen during a difficult

birth, resulting in a learning disability. It was only at the

age of 51 that they found she has Asperger syndrome

with an above-average IQ and not the original

diagnosis. She had some vocal coaching before, sang

in a choir, and joined an acting school, but can you

imagine what could have been if someone had helped

her as a child to develop into what she is now.

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How many children would have loved to

have opportunities to develop their

talents?

Every time you see a child begging on a street

corner, or drive past a shanty town and see the

shabby children playing in the dust, could you

please look in your heart for a vision of what some

of them could become with a little help?

When you lavishly spoil yourself and your family

from the income you so much deserve, have you

ever thought of the joy of being the hero that would

turn that dusty child into a shining, smiling star?

You now probably feel like telling me I’m nuts. Did I

know how many poor people there are that would

have loved such opportunities? I know, but if you

help to turn only one child into a person making a

difference to the world, you have a medal in your

heart that would cause you to swell with pride every

time you see or hear of the difference you have

made.