Spotlight on Orphans 5-12-06, Logan in Africa.

<body> <p align="center"><font size="5">Logan in Africa</font></p> <p>It is Thanksgiving time and I can’t help but see this holiday in a different light as I look forward to the good food around our holiday table.  After my trip to Africa, I can see how much I really have; so many things that I took for granted before. We Americans have so much to be thankful for and don’t realize how blessed we really are.  After seeing so many people survive with so little, I sometimes wonder why God chose to have me born as an American. I remember wondering what it would really be like if I was born in Africa or in some other third world country.<br> While I was there, if I got tired of eating the same thing every day, or missed the comforts of home, I knew I would be going home soon. But those poor people don’t have that hope. Most are stuck there with no chance of a better life. I can’t imagine what their life must be like: working all the time, struggling just for food, and doing without most of our so-called<br> “necessities.”<br> I never think twice about where my next meal will come from or if I can afford to go to the hospital when I’m sick, but so many there do go hungry and can’t afford to take their children to the doctor.<br> I remember nine hundred children coming to the gates of Hope for Children Center, hoping to get something to eat, during<br> the first week I was there. Many of these children were terribly thin and had protruding bellies because they didn’t get enough to eat every day. It broke my heart watching them have to send these precious children away to go to sleep hungry again. Someone told me that some of these children might get a few meager meals a week and that’s how they survive.<br> How many of us can say that we have gone hungry or have had to walk for miles looking for food. Actually, for most of us, we have the opposite problem, especially at this time of year.<br> Thanksgiving is the holiday when most of us pig out and eat too much without a second thought for those who go without. You know, the money we spend to go out to eat once is probably more than many people get a month for food over there.<br>  </p> <p>Logan wrote about his experiences while volunteering in Africa. To learn more click the links below.</p> </p> <p> </p> <a href="pg_0001.htm" TARGET = "_top">Orphans and Orphanages 1</a><p> </p> <a href="pg_0002.htm" TARGET = "_top">Orphans and Orphanages 2</a><p> </p> <a href="pg_0003.htm" TARGET = "_top">Orphans and Orphanages 3</a><p> </p> <a href="pg_0004.htm" TARGET = "_top">Orphans and Orphanages 4</a><p> </p> <a href="pg_0005.htm" TARGET = "_top">Orphans and Orphanages 5</a><p> </p> <a href="pg_0006.htm" TARGET = "_top">Orphans and Orphanages 6</a><p> </p> <a href="pg_0007.htm" TARGET = "_top">Orphans and Orphanages 7</a><p> </p> <a href="pg_0008.htm" TARGET = "_top">Orphans and Orphanages 8</a><p> </p> <a href="pg_0009.htm" TARGET = "_top">Orphans and Orphanages 9</a><p> </p> <a href="pg_0010.htm" TARGET = "_top">Orphans and Orphanages 10</a><p> </p> <a href="pg_0011.htm" TARGET = "_top">Orphans and Orphanages 11</a><p> </p> <a href="pg_0012.htm" TARGET = "_top">Orphans and Orphanages 12</a></p> </body>