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How a simple skipping rope changed lives

Leave a Comment / Hamilton Spectator, Newspaper columns / November 12, 2016 / 2016, charitable giving, children, Compassion Canada, giving, investing, maternal mortality, poverty / 4 minutes of reading

(The Hamilton Spectator – Saturday, November 12, 2016)

KAMPALA, UGANDA ✦ It started with a skipping rope, a plain green skipping rope, the kind you’d find at any dollar store.

It was a simple investment. You’d be forgiven for opting to instead spend the money on your morning double-double.

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If you could live your life over again …

We’re in the moment saying hello to an old, balding gentleman. It’s Jon and myself. The old man is a sociologist and professor and writer who had just made us laugh and think and wonder, along with Mom and Liz and several hundred others in the crowd. He had just talked about giving. How do we give?