Warming Your Cockles

This is the time of year when many charitable organizations reach out for aid and assistance--usually in the form of tax deductible dollars. Last week I received a brochure from an organization called the Smile Train an international charity which provides cleft lip and palate surgery for children who would otherwise not be able to afford this operation. There are a lot of fund raising organizations that spend more money on themselves than the people they trying to help, but 100% of the money raised by the good folks at the Smile Train is spent on the children for whom it's raised. I'm not begging you to send them money, but go to their website and see for yourself the good work they do.