{"id":8724,"date":"2023-11-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/?p=8724"},"modified":"2023-11-24T12:31:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T11:31:46","slug":"weil-wir-an-sie-glauben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/en\/weil-wir-an-sie-glauben\/","title":{"rendered":"Because we believe in them!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dear friends,
Do you know Reinhold Niebuhr’s (1892-1971) well-known serenity-prayer?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Give me the serenity<\/strong> to accept things I can’t change,
the courage<\/strong> to change things that I can change and
the wisdom<\/strong> to distinguish one from the other.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s what it’s all about.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Let’s have the courage to change things!<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

That’s what it’s all about. We can’t change the whole world. But let us not be discouraged. Because we can change a lot of things. About 730 million people in the world live in extreme poverty. About 2.3 billion people have inadequate access to clean water. We know some of these people. We will help them as much as we can. On a small scale. Because Kids of Africa is like a family. Families are small. But families are also strong. They are strong because they stick together. Because they believe in each other. Even to the weakest member of the family. That’s what it’s all about. Because we believe in our prot\u00e9g\u00e9s!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Because help is like a stone thrown into water: it creates ripples<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

In our best moments, our help draws many circles. Of course, this doesn’t always work. But with experience, it succeeds more and more often. Always better. It is an invaluable advantage for us that we have been doing what we have been doing for twenty years. We create sustainable development<\/a> on a small scale. As a grassroots organization. And every franc donated arrives. This allows us to focus on what we do best. For example, helping people to help themselves.<\/a> Education. Life skills. Vocational training. Work. Agriculture. Boost self-confidence. Sport. Solidarity. Art and music. Attitude. Sustainable aid. All of this is our priority.<\/p>\n\n\n

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n the coming Advent weekends, I want to give some examples of this. To show why it is true in a certain way that if you save a child, you save the world at the same time. You see, I have had the inestimable good fortune to spend a lot of time in Uganda in recent weeks with many of our prot\u00e9g\u00e9s and also their friends. We had long and good conversations. I often heard that our prot\u00e9g\u00e9s want to change the world. Big plans. They are the privilege of youth. But I believe we must never stop dreaming. Even if we are 50, 60, 70, 80 or 90 years old. Because we can always<\/em> change the world.<\/p>\n\n\n

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How we can change the world<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

That’s why I like the statement of Margaret Mead (1901-1978), the well-known American sociologist, so much:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00abZweifle nie daran, dass eine kleine Gruppe engagierter Menschen die Welt ver\u00e4ndern kann \u2013\u00a0
tats\u00e4chlich ist dies die einzige Art und Weise, in der die Welt jemals ver\u00e4ndert wurde.\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Thank you for your help in changing the world.\u00a0
Let’s keep up the good work!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have a nice Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best regards,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Always yours <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burkhard Varnholt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wir k\u00f6nnen nicht die ganze Welt ver\u00e4ndern. Doch das soll uns nicht entmutigen. Denn wir k\u00f6nnen viele Dinge \u00e4ndern. Auf der Welt leben etwa 730 Millionen Menschen in extremer Armut. Etwa 2.3 Milliarden Menschen haben unzul\u00e4nglichen Zugang zu sauberem Wasser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8726,"href":"https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724\/revisions\/8726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}