Duvall Family Foundation
The Duvall Family Foundation wishes to memorialize Velma "Suzy" Keith Duvall,
who had a vision to feed all the starving children of the world!
WE PRAY for children who sneak popsicles before supper, who erase holes in math workbooks, who can never find their shoes. And we pray, for those who stare at photographers from behind barbed wire, who can't bound down the street in a new pair of sneakers, who never "counted potatoes," who are born in places where we wouldn't be caught dead, who never go to the circus, who live in an X-rated world. We pray for children who bring us sticky kisses and fistfuls of dandelions, who sleep with the cat and bury goldfish, who hug us in a hurry and forget their lunch money, who squeeze toothpaste all over the sink, who slurp their soup. And we pray for those who never get dessert who have no safe blanket to drag behind them, who watch their parents, watch them die, who can't find any bread to steal, who don't have any rooms to clean up, whose pictures aren't on anybody's dresser, whose monsters are real... We pray for children who want to be carried and for those who must, for those we never give up on and for those who don't get a second chance. for those we smother... and for those who will grab the hand of anybody kind enough to offer it. Amen By Ina J. Hughs |
Our Purpose
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." in an economy that is increasingly creating conceptual goods rather than tangible products." MUHAMMAD YUNUS, 67, an American-trained economist from Bangladesh, won last year's Nobel Peace Prize for his revolutionary approach to ending poverty. His concept of micro-loans--giving small sums to poor people to start businesses--is being adopted around the world. We caught up with the globe-trotting visionary: You have said that "charity" is a bad word. Why? YUNUS: "Charity is not a solution. Give a homeless man money, and he'll eat for a day. But the next day, he's back on the same track. We need a system where he can earn his own food." What is the biggest obstacle for the poor? YUNUS: "Society has made the poor believe they're no good. But it's the poor who work the hardest. They work their pants off but don't get anything." Why do you believe that people in poverty can become an economic powerhouse? YUNUS: "Half of the globe subsists on $2 a day. Imagine if you could create an income for them - if they bought one pair of shoes a year or one shirt. You'd need 3 billion more shirts and shoes. More than that, we are wasting their talents and creative genius. We don't even know what we've missed." |
