{"id":1141,"date":"2013-10-29T05:42:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T12:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrfund.wordpress.com\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2013-10-29T05:42:38","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T12:42:38","slug":"2012-chrf-good-samaritan-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrf.org\/blog\/2012-chrf-good-samaritan-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 CHRF Good Samaritan of the Year Award:"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year Children\u2019s Hunger Relief Fund started a new tradition of awarding an outstanding member of our community of projects and friends with the \u201cGood Samaritan\u201d award. The award is given to individuals in order to recognize their incredible generosity, mercy, compassion and sacrifice for others. Last year\u2019s award went to Judi Gentry, a wonderful grandmother, who just in her 70\u2019s, decided to adopt an entire orphanage of children in Uganda after her journey there to visit the wild-life of the country.<\/p>\n

This year we are pleased to present the award to Marisa White, a hard-working and selfless young woman that was busy being a full time mother to her two children, a student working towards her degree, and a full time diligent employee at her work. Marissa\u2019s life was forever changed when she discovered the awful and dangerous living situation of three young children in her community. Their parents had neglected and abandoned these three innocent children including one young boy who has had his cerebral palsy worsen from neglecting the proper therapy.<\/p>\n

Surrounded by drug abuse, not attending school, ignoring much needed medical attention, these children were rescued by Marisa from their desperate situation. Thinking not of herself or how much of her life would be consumed by having to raise five children instead of two, Marisa acted out of her incredible and heroic heart of compassion and mercy to raise these children as her own.<\/p>\n

Perhaps she tells the story best as she writes to us:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are barely words to describe what it\u2019s like to watch a child you love be neglected by someone they need. \u2018Appalling\u2019 is a pretty good one: anger, rage, sorrow, disbelief. I think that moms especially have a really hard time wrapping our heads around the concept of neglecting a child. Addiction is a powerful force. There are a lot of powerfully bad forces out there, and even if you can\u2019t protect the kids from the consequences of those forces, you can give them what they need to cope with those consequences. THAT\u2019s the gift we hope to bring to their lives. We aren\u2019t going to replace their parents and we don\u2019t want to. We are trying to give them the stability and safety that they need to develop into emotionally and physically healthy kids, and the foundation they\u2019ll need as they get older to understand and work through that loss and pain. Children\u2019s Hunger Relief Fund helps make this possible for many other children in similar situations.\u00a0\u00a0 May you be forever blessed for what YOU do!\u00a0 You can\u2019t even imagine how you help change lives<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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These three children have been rescued in part thanks to YOUR HELP!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Perhaps what is equally incredible about Marisa is her astonishing humility. She protested receiving the award this year saying, \u201cSurely there must be better people out there you can give the award to! I didn\u2019t have a choice, I had to help these kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Marisa’s youngsters are now receiving the proper medical therapy!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Her quote reveals the frame of mind and attitude which perfectly exemplifies the parable of the good Samaritan and is exactly why we are presenting her with the award despite her frequent protests.<\/p>\n

Our Chairman of the Board writes:<\/p>\n

\u201cOften times in our every daily lives we naturally get caught up in own problems and perhaps forget the great need that exists outside of what we even have time to consider. The fact is that most people would not drastically change their life and sacrifice much of what we have in order to help others. But we at CHRF want to honor the many people in our community who do. Marisa, it\u2019s your turn. You are a real life hero. You\u2019re one of the most incredible people I\u2019ve ever heard of and it\u2019s an honor to know you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Marisa<\/a>
Marisa with one of her new happy children!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To all of our CHRF donors around the world that make real life-saving stories like this one possible, WE THANK YOU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year Children\u2019s Hunger Relief Fund started a new tradition of awarding an outstanding member of our community of projects and friends with the \u201cGood Samaritan\u201d award. The award is given to individuals in order to recognize their incredible generosity, mercy, compassion and sacrifice for others. Last year\u2019s award went to Judi Gentry, a wonderful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[7,265],"tags":[261,104,262,263,91,264,194,186,16,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrf.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrf.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrf.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrf.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrf.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrf.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrf.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrf.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrf.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}