A couple days ago I was moved by a story a fellow cruising parent (and colleague) posted on her blog.
On November 24, Behan Gifford posted a picture on Facebook of a small Burmese boy riding the scooter one of her kids had given him. The picture was taken in the Satun, Thailand boatyard where Behan’s boat is hauled and where this boy and many other kids live with their families in modest workers’ dormitories.
Six days later, the same picture was on her blog with a PayPal button and her pitch to raise money to buy more scooters for more of the boatyard kids. Three days after that, an astounding $1,400 dollars had been raised and Behan went shopping.
Read this post to learn what happened next and then—only then—watch the following video made by the crew of Esper, another cruising boat in the same yard. It’ll make your day. (Note: the video is 17 minutes long and starts with the story I’m writing about, but then features a several-minute update on their boat work. Fast-forward through this for now because most of the gifting story is afterward.)
Behan’s story highlights what a small world this is, and perhaps a benefit of it shrinking. Her’s is an example of how a big impact can be made and simultaneously worked into our perversely busy cruising lives.
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