Brotherly Commitment
Today I got an e-mail from a person who receives our newsletter. She wrote:
“I am hoping you will take an interest in the content of the following website: www.leesrecovery.com. I have been advocating for the mental health treatment needs necessary for my brother, Lee, over the last twelve years. The result is that we finally made a breakthrough this year, 2007, in obtaining some of the vital services needed. What remains is an intensive program of head injury/substance abuse recovery and I do not have the funds. Without this specific recovery treatment Lee is probably without an option for a healthy, stable future; with it he is very likely to fully succeed.”
She wants to reach 5000 people to donate $ 10/each. I am impressed by the commitment of the lady to help her destitude brother. She has realised a high-tech flash website to promote her concern about her brother, with a lot of creativity. However, collecting donations is not the way I would go, but trust in support when going into the direction I understand as right. So I’m not going to send money – my “localised” focus of help attention is elsewhere. I am confronted daily in my work with so many situations of urgent need and initiatives of collecting money. But maybe someone of the readers feels being touched by this cry for help, especially at this time of the year.
Water flowing into a pont for extinguishing fire
