Why Post My Family Picture First?

Some may wonder why I put a family picture at the beginning of this blog. I may replace it with an African-themed one once I am in Africa and in the picture-taking process. But for now, I thought it a fitting thing to display what is most dear to my heart. People have asked what motivated me to become involved with Care For Life. As I stated in my profile on this blog, my family is the center of my universe both in this world and will be in the next. I hope to inspire them and to urge myself to reach a little higher outside my own world to help others. We have so much to be thankful for. The people I am soon to meet have so little. I feel very privileged to make a small difference in their lives. I hope by my experiences I will encourage other family members and friends to stretch themselves a little, to give a little more, to be willing to help make someone else's life better in a very profound way.

I have been greatly moved by the mission of Care For Life. As some of you already know, Care for Life is a non-profit charitable organization started by a married couple over ten years ago to help the poor of Mozambique. While I am there, the group I will be working with will have opportunity to help in some orphanages, villages, and I hope to find time to visit a local hospital to see if there is anything I can contribute from an occupational therapy aspect during future visits. Care for Life has had amazing results with their model and method of preserving the family in Mozambique. Using the welfare wheel as a basis of their model of rehabilitating African villages, many have become clean, self-supporting and self-sustaining communities. To help preserve families and to teach them how to become self-sufficient is a great work. Please visit their website at careforlife.org to learn more about what they are doing in greater detail.