Hope for a Starfish: Falling Whistles

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Falling Whistles

In honor of spring break a few friends and I went to Chattanooga to explore and relax. We spent the morning perusing a lovely art museum and afterwards decided to browse through a few shops. Serendipitously it began to rain, and we ran into a little shoe store to explore (but mostly stay dry). The little shoe store held a small display of curious looking whistles. The store owner came up and began to describe how the whistles are meant to raise awareness for the Congo. My heart about lept! The Congo is the one region I am incredibly passionate about, and it is amazing to finally see an organization actually working towards help there! Falling Whistles tells the story of boys too young to carry a gun, who are given a whistle and told to make as much noise as they possibly can. The profit from the whistles goes to helping victims of this fight that has killed over 5 million people. Their video explains a bit about the complex issue that is occurring on the other side of the world.

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Hope

There is a story about a little child who was surrounded by starfish on a beach. He was throwing them one by one as an old man approached.After asking what he was doing the little boy replied saying that "If I dont throw them in, they'll die." The old man realized that the little boy could never save them all and pointed this out. The little boy in turn picked one up, threw it into the ocean and declared that he had made a difference for that one starfish. Current social justice issues are the same way, we can make a difference for at least one person, and maybe if we all work together that number will multiply. I am hopeful that we can help the starfish of this world: poverty, sex trafficking, drug wars and other injustices.