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News reports can overwhelm us. we can be appalled, we can sympathise. but what is hard to grasp is the sense that, at this moment, people are working, organising - not just at an executive level, but on the floor, in the warehouse. a man is packing a box of oral rehydration tablets; maternity kits are being prepared; education kits are being packed. and somewhere, tomorrow, those boxes will be unpacked and a child with life-threatening diarrhoea will be saved, a baby will be born in more hygienic circumstances, a girl will receive her first exercise book and her first pencil.
-Ralph Fiennes
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Ralph Fiennes
News reports can overwhelm us. we can be appalled, we can sympathise. but what is hard to grasp is the sense that, at this moment, people are working, organising - not just at an executive level, but on the floor, in the warehouse. a man is packing a box of oral rehydration tablets; maternity kits are being prepared; education kits are being packed. and somewhere, tomorrow, those boxes will be unpacked and a child with life-threatening diarrhoea will be saved, a baby will be born in more hygienic circumstances, a girl will receive her first exercise book and her first pencil.
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