As Caitlyn looked down at the sweet face of her sleeping baby, she recalled what the pediatrician said. “She’s developing at an above average rate.”

It filled her with happiness. It was a diametrically opposed contrast to the new mothers with babies shown in third-world countries. How heartbreaking it must be to know your baby can’t get the basic vaccinations or any other medical care. How helpless a mother would feel putting her child to bed at night, knowing she was hungry?  

Knowing that people like Oprah Winfrey and Bill Gates did all they could to help, her thoughts turned to the day’s activities. “How could my insignificant donation help in the face of such intense poverty?”

And she turned away.

In another American home Anna watched her newborn son sleeping in his crib. He too was learning and growing in a normal way. Then a thought of the sweet face of an African baby shown in the news interrupted her reverie. Would that child grow up happy and healthy? She knew the answer. However, she couldn’t afford to donate much money to help.

But, she didn’t turn away.

That day Anna made a decision. “I CAN make a difference even though it’s a small one.”

That day she sent a small donation to fight poverty and hunger in Africa, a continent more than eight thousand miles away.

Imagine the result if a hundred mothers, like Caitlyn, turned away. Nothing times one hundred equals nothing.

But, imagine what can be accomplished if a hundred young mothers, like Anna, donate a modest amount of money each month. While nothing multiplied by one hundred is still nothing, ten or twenty dollars multiplied by one hundred CAN provide a significant amount of help to babies and children suffering the effects of poverty.

Which group of one hundred do you want to be a part of?