World Wildlife Fund

10th January 2008

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I am so very proud of my daughter. I believe I mentioned before Christmas that she had requested $100 cash from Santa. This isn’t unusual for kids to want cash, but the reason she wanted it was so that she could make a donation to the World Wildlife Fund. She not only got the $100 she’d asked for, she got much more.

What makes me so proud of my daughter is that it would have been very easy for her to see all the cash she collected at Christmas and decide to use it to purchase video games and toys. It was the most money she’d ever had in her hand at one time, $240, but no, she stuck with her plan and handed me the form to send in with her donation. I added another $10 so she was able to send in a total of $250 and symbolically adopt a sea turtle family.

My daughter is a turtle lover to say the least. She has done several school essays and research papers on the turtle species and we even visited the giant Galapagos tortoise in South Dakota, a completely thrilling event for her. This Christmas, she put her money where her heart is and support the efforts of the WWF in saving the endangered sea turtles. I am very proud of her.

Yesterday’s mail delivery brought my daughter a special thank you from the WWF. The blue box held 2 sea turtles stuffed animals (a family), a picture of the sea turtle and certificate of the symbolic family adoption, a poster and a sea turtle fact sheet. This was a definite photo op!

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1 On January 13th, 2008, Mickie said:

Hurray for you and your family! What a smart and compassionate girl. Would you might if I reprint this post on StyleSwag Magazine (with a link back here)?

PS. Did she name her adopted turtles?

Mickie’s last blog post..How To Be Your Own Hero

posted on January 13th, 2008 at 5:26 pm

2 On January 13th, 2008, lynne said:

Mickie - I’m very proud of my daughter. I think she’ll go very far in her life with an attitude of helping others and helping those creatures who can’t help themselves. I think it would be fine if you would like to re-print my post, or paraphrase it with a link back.

Thanks for stopping by to check it out!

posted on January 13th, 2008 at 7:05 pm

3 On January 16th, 2008, A Sense of Pride » The Sewing Mom said:

[…] wrote a post last week regarding the World Wildlife Fund and my daughter’s contribution to their cause. She is a great lover of all things turtle and […]

posted on January 16th, 2008 at 2:13 pm

4 On January 16th, 2008, Forest Parks said:

That really s great.

I hope that one day I can open up a blog where all properties go to charity and WWF will be at the top of the list.

Forest Parks’s last blog post..A moral question….

posted on January 16th, 2008 at 8:31 pm

5 On January 16th, 2008, lynne said: