An inspirational message

An inspirational message

EDITOR:

I attended the Ohio Cultural Alliance dinner meeting at Mt. Carmel Hall in Youngstown April 6. Kathleen Price, founder/director of “Mission of Love Foundation” presented a program that kept 220 people spellbound. This “Mission of Love” is the best kept secret in Youngstown.

“You are not here to save the world, but to touch the hands that are within your reach” is their motto!

The Mission of Love Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides humanitarian aid to those in need worldwide, especially children. Backed by individuals, local businesses and the U.S. Military’s Denton Program, the Mission of Love airlifts clothing, medicine and food and building supplies to third world countries, including the poorest community in the U.S. — Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota — and to Hurricane Katrina victims in Louisiana. Once the supplies arrive, groups of people, both young and old, from all walks of life, are there to utilize the supplies by building medical clinics, repairing orphanages, administering medical treatment to the ill and serving those who need help.

In addition, their Good News for 2009 is to build and rehab a home addition for a paraplegic in Youngstown, build homes at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, airlift aid to Iquitos, Peru, Guatemala and Honduras.

Every $1 donated generates $122 worth of goods and services.

I found this evening’s presentation to be an inspiration and that their work, a true “Mission of Love.”

DOLORES IANNUCCI

Boardman