Saturday, December 20, 2008

The Tale of Two Euros

It happened in a classroom in Vienna, Austria. Sister was explaining to the children about their poor brothers and sisters in a village in Africa where little children are HIV positive but can receive the hope of a reasonably normal life with medication from the health clinic run by the Daughters of Divine Charity. One of the students, a little boy, excused himself and called his father at his place of employment. "Daddy, please come to school, I need two Euros right away!" The devoted father was wondering what note from the teacher he had overlooked or how the lunch money got lost and so forth. When he got to the classroom and asked to see his son the boy explained that he needed it to quickly save the life of a little African child.