DARE TO DREAM BIG!: Curing Homelessness with Hugs and Ladybugs!

Imagine This: You’re five years old and you see a homeless man eating out of a garbage can on a freezing winter day. You can’t forget about him and you worry about him for almost a year. But you’re just a young girl, what can you do?

 Who: You’re Hannah Taylor, a five-year-old girl from Manitoba

 What: Your passion to help the homeless

 Where: Winnipeg, Manitoba

 When: 2001 to the present time

This is an inspiring story of compassion and determination.

You are so disturbed by the homeless man eating out of a garbage can that you ask your dad to take you to visit a homeless shelter. You want to learn more about hunger and homelessness.

You decide you want to help the homeless and you begin by talking to your class about raising funds for a local homeless shelter. By age 8, you’ve founded The Ladybug Foundation because Ladybugs represent luck and homeless people need good luck. You paint baby food jars like ladybugs and ask businesses for spare change.

Over the next four years you end up talking to thousands of people including more than 175 schools, organizations, and events.

Through your efforts, well over 2 million dollars has been raised directly and indirectly for projects across Canada providing shelter, food, and safety for homeless people. You’re still going strong today and have no plans for slowing down!

Thank you, Hannah, for your vision: Where society sees a problem, you see a person!

Postscript: Taylor, now 15, travels widely across her native Canada, delivering a call to action and challenging young people to get involved and make change in their community and in their world!

For More about Hannah Taylor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RhNS7ITn_4Y#!

 Something to Think about: Why do you think Hannah was so determined to help the homeless?

                               “The time is always right to do what is right.”

                                                  Martin Luther King, Jr.

Willoughby and I hope you enjoyed this week’s true story and will be back next week for another story to inspire you to DARE TO DREAM BIG!

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