We spoke about Tana; the five-year-old girl and about Ella; the 8-year-old little girl who offered her food to a needy person on the road out of her love and affection that depicts the best images of humanity. However, Ella’s story has not ended at this point as her father shared a video of his daughter charitable act and wrote, “My daughter has learnt a great lesson today: to offer help to those who are less luck than her. I am so proud of my daughter”. Social media and TV Newscasts have reported it as an example for charitable and humane acts of mercy,. The father commented on this by thanking all the commenters of the video and added, “I taught Ella to do so since she was three. Many people offered me a helping hand and I had to teach my daughter this same lesson”. The most important point in this story was that the father had received a phone call from a woman who told him in great sadness that her brother whose age is 62 years old was an old warrior suffering from Posttraumatic stress disorder and he had left home 6 month ago and she had not been able to find him till she saw him in the video and knew he was OK. Hence, there was an attempt to connect him with his family. So the act of mercy Ella offered had not only helped her family, but other people in the society as well. Simple acts of love can be a motivation to others to change their life.
“President Austin”; this is how he likes to be called. He is a four-year-old nice and decent boy. Every week he plays the role of a superhero trying to help homeless people as much as possible. The story of this little hero began when he was watching a TV program about panda that left its child and let it be homeless. This was the first time he learnt from his father about homeless people who have no home or food. The child asked if there were homeless people too as there were homeless animals. Hence he knew there were a lot of them so he asked his parents to turn what they offer him of gifts or money to food so that he can distribute it as soon as possible to as many homeless people. While he was distributing the food to each homeless person, he said to him his famous quote, “Do not forget to offer love”. One of the homeless people said about this “This boy gave me hope”. This is how hope sneaked its way into the hearts of many who lead a very tough life through a smile of a child who learnt that happiness is a result of helping others… to be continued
General Bishop
Head of the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center
