Are you called to be a Voice for the Refugee? World Refugee Day

The refugee who had tried to escape to a new life had his wrists cut off.
He was trying to eat grapes with the stumps which had been bandaged.
His crime? He had tried to leave a strife-torn zone to search for work so that he could support his ailing mother and his brothers.
His peaceful father had died during atrocity.
He was all of nineteen years old.
The Charity worker who told me this story years ago while we were on field trip together was overcome by grief.
It broke my heart.

Many many years later I still remember the quiet agony of that brave young man.
Let us urgently link hands together as global community to stop war; stop hatred; stop mutilition; stop atrocity; stop strife; stop killing; heal the effects left on the bodies and souls of so many of our global brothers and sisters.

Tomorrow is World Refugee Day.
In the spirit of Lumiere, is there anything you can do to help a refugee?
Donate to a reputable cause, if you have a coffee money to spare?
Knit a blanket for a refugee camp?
Donate time as a doctor, nurse, health professional to a refugee camp?
Fly needed supplies, food and medical equipment to a refugee area?
Help protect people being mutilated and murdered as peacekeeper?
If you are bedbound and have limited funds, pray for refugees and for those working to help them, that Providence may bless our efforts and keep us safe?
If you are a priest/minister/pastor assist in spiritual ministry to refugees?
If you are a translator, assist refugees with documents?
If you are a teacher, give classes to refugees for free?
If you are a psychologist/psychiatrist/counsellor, give service free of charge to refugees?

UNHCR is helping people forced to flee.
They provide emergency kits.
They offer facilities to donate, or create your own fundraising page to help those so desperately in need.

Stop and look at your life.
You are a powerful human being.
As a Power of One, you can make a difference.
When I started out with Lumiere, I had been recently learning to walk, write and speak properly again after a car accident and illness which had affected my movement and limbs.
I had been almost bedbound for three months.
During those three months when I lay most of the time in agony, and moving at times with difficulty, I had a long time to think and ponder on life.
And I made the pledge that if I was granted the gift to walk again, I would begin a Charity as I had felt inspired for years to do.

In the beginning things moved slowly. Today 93 countries follow our Lumiere Charity blogs, children rescued from the streets are post graduate and living full and happy lives.
Libraries have been established, orphanages started.
Our first student has just graduated from Lumiere English Academy.
Professors, teachers, people from all walks of life have donated their expertise, intellectual property and gifts and time to help uncountable people in their difficulties.
This has shown me that nothing is impossible.

Voices are urgently needed to be the voice of the poor and the refugee.
Are you called to be one of them?

http://unhcr.org/1family/