Picturesque- St Francis Integrated

Framed on a wall in the toddlers room, was this beautiful crayon drawing of a girl walking in the woods. 'Beautiful' hardly captures my sentiments on the drawing, which you should really get to see close up. The texture of the drawing and the choice of colour give it such vivid life! The first thought i had in my mind, upon seeing the drawing, was that this should have a tidy price tag right below it. But a second later, as the drawing drew me deeper into the woods (.... can u just see the blue behind the trees, amazing i say! Reminds me of the lost battle in Tom Cruise's Last Samurai) i realised that this drawing is more significant in this room than anywhere else at whatever price. Even, at the price of a new piece of land to host a bigger manificent school or at the cost of new dormitories, classrooms and a dining hall, or hundreds of mattresses and meals for a decade, i think i'd rather have the picture remain right where it is.

So that 10 years from today, when one of the small babies of St Francis is a Corporate Lawyer in New Y... sorry Nairobi or the President of the Republic, they can go back and see a picture that inspired many a heart to recognise and appreciate the potential that lay in each of these destitute children. Inherent qualities that don't need the frilly luxuries of our ordinary lives to shine.

Lets make a difference.