Thank you @cherylsonty for organising this contest and thanks also to @paradise-found, a man with a grateful heart and a willing hand to help others.
You might never be grateful for what you have until you meet people who have desperate need for what you have which you have being ungrateful for because maybe you are living in the mist of people whose lives and earnings are better than yours. My friend, before you complain, try to move around the town and you will see reasons to be thankful to God for what you have.
The above picture is myself and was taken on the first day of this month of June, when @mickyscofild, @nancy007 and myself visited an orphanage home in Niger State where am currently schooling. The visit was possible through a contest @mickyscofield won 50 steem and he used it to buy food items for the orphanage we visited.
@mickyscofield and the food items
The joy of these orphanage children we visited was a great one and my eyes opened to how ungrateful I have being to God all the while especially because of the traumatic experience of last year and also spending an extra year in the university. But here I was with some orphans who don't know how the food for the next minute will come and yet they were still cheerful.
The shocking part which made me more grateful for life was a little boy of about three to four years in that orphanage who I was told is a cripple. I shivered and wondered how a little innocent boy is an orphan and also a cripple but the joy that radiated from him hindered me from crying as I carried him to take a group picture and he later posed for some personal pictures.
After we presented the items, I took a stroll within the orphanage before we left. This visit and the love I and some others have recieved from the steem platform initiated the @steemminna community account which was created that same day through steemconnect. And it's purpose is to help the poor in the northern part of Nigeria. It's made up of 9 steemians including myself.
(Logo design by @izzrael)
I am very grateful for the opportunity of having what to eat, being healthy and to help others, and soonest the @steemminna team will start carrying out it's objectives of helping the poor in northern part of Nigeria.