#5 Three Cups of Tea

Greg Mortenson came back to the States completely broke with almost nothing except the unfulfilled promise of building a school for Korphe. He resolved to mail 500 letters to movie stars, coorperations, anyone who might have been generous enough to donate to his cause. He calculated that he would need to raise $12,000 in order to build a five roomed school and pleaded everyone to give what they could in order to help reach this amount.
To say something more about his dedication, Mortenson did the first 300 letters on rented typewriters that were to small for his fingers, and it was such slow and tedious work that it took months to complete before he finally discovered how to use a computer. But even then the charity wasn't going as well as hoped. No one seemed interesed enough to contribute. That is, until he spoke about it at his mothers school to the children. What the adults could not understand, the elemetary school students understood immediatly, and they began raising money by collecting pennies. The first $623.45 Mortenson gathered was from these insignificant pennies given to him by kids.
Children truely are the world most pure hearted creatures. They understand love and giving without fail. They gave so much by giving so little. They could teach all of us a thing or two.