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Happy Thanksgiving - Thankful for you!

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  As I live here in Africa, I'm reminded how much I have to be thankful for. This past week, in the child focus groups, I had children tell me how thankful they are for VOH - because they now have an education, food, clothes and shoes, and without coming here, their family couldn't afford it. I honestly don't know what it's like to be thankful for any of these things, as in Canada, I've never had a day when they weren't easily available to me. The children are so thankful.  As I think of all the Goodness of God in my life this Thanksgiving weekend, I include you. I'm truly thankful that you are on this journey with me through your giving, thoughts and prayers. Thank you. When I finished one of the focus groups, I asked if anyone wanted to say something to the donors who support me in my work at VOH. Sharon, a girl in the teen group, wanted to sing a song of thanks she wrote. In it she says: I want to say thank you for the things you have done, I want yo say