When my children were little they asked why we saved our pennies in the little Noah's ark bank and the little blue box with UTO (United Thank Offering) printed on the side. I explained to them that in poor communities around the world a penny bought a cup of milk for a hungry belly, a nickel bought a vaccination against bad germs that kept children from being able to play outside, a dime helped families buy chickens for eggs, goats for milk and llamas for wool to make sweaters and blankets, and a quarter helped build a school, a hospital or a well for clean water to drink or bathe in.
So whenever we would find change on the ground or in the washer or dryer we would put it in the banks and say, "That's a cup of milk."
My children has since grown up and gone out into the world and yet even today I keep a Noah's ark bank on my dryer and a box with NIN (Neighbors in Need) printed on it in my car and when I find change on the ground or in the washer or dryer I still pick it up and put it in the bank and say, "That's a cup of milk."
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