Once upon a time, there was an old man who used to go to the ocean for exercise.
One day, the old man was walking along a beach that was littered with thousands of starfish that had been washed ashore by the high tide. As he walked he came upon a young boy who was eagerly throwing the starfish back into the ocean, one by one.
Puzzled, the man looked at the boy and asked what he was doing.
The young boy paused, looked up, and replied “Throwing starfish into the ocean. The tide has washed them up onto the beach and they can’t return to the sea by themselves,” the boy replied. “When the sun gets high, they will die, unless I throw them back into the water.”
The old man replied, “But there must be tens of thousands of starfish on this beach. I’m afraid you won’t really be able to make much of a difference.”
The boy bent down, picked up yet another starfish and threw it as far as he could into the ocean. Then he turned, smiled and said, “It made a difference to that one!”
Adapted from The Star Thrower, Loren Eiseley
Why we give
What we give
For Each Stone
Plants 10 trees
Do our part to preserve our environment
Gives 10 meals
Keeps children in school
Nourish the body and the mind
Supports Ocean Conservation
1% of our revenue goes to other environmental conservation efforts
”“We make a living by what we get,
Winston Churchill
but we make a life by what we give.”
Citations
[1] International Union for Conservation of Nature, February, 2021. Deforestation and forest degradation. https://www.iucn.org/resources/issues-briefs/deforestation-and-forest-degradation
[2] Save the plankton, breathe freely, 2021, National Geographic https://www.nationalgeographic.org/activity/save-the-plankton-breathe-freely/
[3] Can we feed the world and ensure no one goes hungry? United Nations, Oct 2019, https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/10/1048452
[4] Malnutrition, UNICEF, April 2021, https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/malnutrition/
[5] Early Childhood Education, 2021, https://www.unicef.org/education/early-childhood-education