This is the time of year I can most often be found with dirt under my fingernails. I love spring. Planting flowers, putting in a garden, working along side God to accent some of the beauty that He has placed here for us to enjoy.
Today, instead of working in the garden and coming in with dirt under my fingernails, I decided to put on a pair of rubber gloves from a box high on the shelf in the back of the garage. They were still good and this would insure I could shower at the end of the day without having to spend 30 minutes digging and digging under my nails to be presentable.
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As I finished with the work I stripped off the gloves and hung them on the wooden fence I had built around the flower garden. For a moment I stared at them. Such a simple thing, at least in my part of the world, we can have a box of 50 pair for $9.79, and we can buy them at every drug store in town. That means the days work cost me around 20 cents for the gloves to keep my hands clean.
The reason I stared at them is because I spend time in a part of the world where even the doctors and nurses do not have these 20-cent pairs of gloves. That’s right, caring for sick (often HIV positive), and doing it without a pair of protective 20-cent gloves. Doing surgery on a critically ill patient (often HIV positive), and the surgeon not having any protection for their hands. Caring for serious hurt patients at an auto accident and not having the gloves to protect the first responders.
And it was so easy. I just walked over to my shelf and pulled down a pair of gloves to use in the garden. There is something wrong with this picture. If you’ll pick up a box of rubber gloves and send them to me I’m make sure they get to a doctor, nurse, or first responder in Malawi.
Gloves for Malawi
c/o Malawi Project
3314 Van Tassel Drive
Indianapolis, Indiana 46240-3555
