In his new book, "Primal", Mark Batterson shares the following:
"One of the most profound books I've ever read is Man's Search for Meaning by psychiatrist Viktor Frankl. In the book, Frankl documents his experiences as a holocaust survivor. He was loaded onto an overcrowded railroad car with other Jewish prisoners and treated like an animal. When he arrived at his designated concentration camp, he was stripped of his clothing, his pictures, and his personal belongings. The Nazis even took away the prisoner's names and gave them numbers. Frankl was number 119,104.
"Numbers are dehumanizing. Numbers are desensitizing.
"Every year, 15 million children die of starvation. When you break that number down, that is more than 40,000 children per day or nearly 29 children every 60 seconds. But here's the problem: We don't know their names. We only know their number. And numbers are numbing. It's so easy for us to ignore suffering when it doesn't have a name or a face, isn't it?"
Here are some organizations that will help put a name on the face of poverty around the world:
Giving the gift of a goat or a sewing machine can produce an industry that will save a family. There are parts of the world where $25 is the difference between living and dying.
Are you looking for places more local to give? You can try contacting your local church, school or Boys and Girls Club. These organizations know of families in need and will accept anonymous donations to give to families in need this season.
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