How are you today?
I hope you have been getting some rest to recharge for a new week.
If you don’t mind, I would like to share a little bit about paying it forward.
To put it in its simplest form, paying it forward refers to doing a good deed to someone for a kindness that someone else has done (or will do) to you. It’s about giving back to the community or those in need.
After I was hired for my current permanent job in 2014, I made it my personal goal to pay it forward in a manner close to my heart.
I have always been passionate about defending children’s rights, especially their rights in receiving education in addition to basic daily necessities. Children are our future and are worth the investment of our time, energy, and money. And so, I found out about child sponsorship through World Vision Malaysia.
Contributions through World Vision are pooled in a shared fund to be used in long-term development programmes targeted towards a specific community’s well-being and livelihood.
The development programmes focus on the following:
- Clean water and sanitation
- Healthcare
- Food and agriculture
- Education
- Economic development
My monthly contributions to World Vision Malaysia are currently used for the below projects:
- Education fund
- Child sponsor (John Rhey, Philippines)
- Child sponsor (Thi Luu, Vietnam)
- Child sponsor (Tanos Abbas, Lebanon)
As a child sponsor, I receive annual reports on how my children and their community are doing. I also receive letters and cards (and beautiful drawings!) from my children.
Hearing about how my children are progressing and what they aspire to become gives me pure joy and confidence that we are getting ready for the future no matter where we are.
In addition to child sponsorship through World Vision, I am also a supporter of other non-profit organisations such as UNICEF, WWF, NKF, and SPCA.
How about you?
How do you prefer to pay it forward? ๐
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