“I think there are new ways of doing things,” she says. “I mean, I think the Red Cross does an amazing job. They do phenomenal stuff, as do all the really large NGOs. But I think there’s a lot of individuals at this point, who are working with very sleek, very novel, very unique ways that aren’t just government contracts within the “normal” bureaucratic ways of doing things, that really can make a huge impact.”
Peterson thinks the new social climate, with increasing numbers of investors supporting social entrepreneurial ideas that really can prove results, is the wave of the future. It also is the hallmark of a paradigm shift in consciousness.
HHI is just one example of this shift: one person’s vision, drawing to it other individuals of equal compassion and concern for the world as a community, who, with commitment and ingenuity move forward together effecting change.
“You know, the people like the ones reading The Bleeping Herald and watching What the BLEEP!? realize we are world citizens, “says Peterson, “and that basically these are all our children.” And that’s what makes the difference.
For more information about Hands to Hearts International go to: http://www.handstohearts.org
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