It is not often that something so big happens in our lifetime that we want to shout it from the highest rooftop. For me, this happened on Tuesday, October 29. A good friend and his wife introduced me to the world of the +Starkey Hearing Foundation for the purposes of assisting my son, who is profoundly deaf. +Starkey Hearing was to hold a mission to help kids by giving them the latest and greatest technology in hearing devices.
At first, I was apprehensive to this idea; I am not one who accepts handouts or charity well. I prefer to be the giver, not the receiver. However, as I thought it through, I realized that here was a privately funded organization that was offering to change my son's life. It is not some bloated bureaucracy, like our government, stealing funding from the hard work of others to fund their special interest. This is an honest, and well funded, private charity that receives funding because of what they do for children. People donate because they WANT to, not because they have to.
