ONE GOOD Thing at a TIME...add to MAKE A MIRACLE

MIRACLES Start with ONE GOOD thing At a TIME

One GOOD thing at a time...One GOOD idea at a time...One KIND act at a time...
I am sure the 5 loaves and 2 fish multiply to feed thousands...

We have seen homeless...I have seen homeless in my walks in the large metropolises if the world...Toronto and Montreal and Paris and London and New York and L.A. ...
I wrote in one of my previous blogs that in London they began to install sharp metal spikes so as they will discourage homeless and drive them away...
Each one has a different approach...different perspective...
I do not agree with the spikes...It is a grand stupid idea and stinks of inhumane logic...just like the story of the ostrich...
Everyone has there own solution to the same situation...
Some want to feed the hungry....others starve them to death...
Some spike the sidewalks to drive the homeless away...others help them to achieve dignity and humanity...

Here is a GREAT IDEA and Wonderful experiment which began in San Francisco...
Google is financing the experiment...
After all, the Silicon Valley guys are not ALL chasing prostitutes...They are GOOD people and want to democratize information and also humanize the streets...

Indeed this is not an ORDINARY bus....

Here's a whole different kind of Google bus — one that could help change the lives of San Francisco's most needy.

San Francisco nonprofit Lava Mae just unveiled a trial version of a bus that provides showers for the 6,400 homeless people who live in the city by the Bay. It was funded in large part by a grant from Google, which gave the project $100,000 as part of its Google Impact Challenge.

Beautiful Idea...

                            Lava Mae    ..............................  and the buses for showers and human dignity...

....and Lava Mae Says....

OUR BELIEFS Everyone has the right to be clean. With hygiene comes dignity and with dignity, opportunity *** OUR SCHEDULE Pilot Program Launch June 2014 Full Service Launch* Spring 2015 *By 2015 we'll have 4 buses on the road providing 2,000+ showers/week

I am sure when people think...they will come up with good ideas...

I am sure when they persist...they will find philanthropists who will support their idea ...

I am sure if people work together we will be able to multiply the loaves and fish to feed the hungry....

Just stop and think...

One GOOD idea at a time...One good did at a time...

Armenian Example:

In 2011 chess became a compulsory feature in public schools in Armenia, a nation obsessed with the game. Armenia invested $1.5 million to create textbooks and curricula, train instructors and buy equipment.

"We hope that the Armenian teaching model might become among the best in the world," Armen Ashotyan told The Associated Press at the time.

          Thinking starts at schools...                                   ...Use on line facilities and resources...

"By incorporating chess as part of the curriculum you are including a game, and that's how kids see it," said Wendi Fischer, executive director of the US Foundation for Chess in the same AP report. "They think they're focused on fun. So I think it is a great way to cross over between a true hardcore curriculum that's mandatory and the young children being able to play and explore and have fun."

Now Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham, Alabama, is looking to make chess a fixture in its schools, in hopes that it will allow kids to stretch their minds and improve their analytical abilities.

But math is a big part of the picture. School officials cite a 1998 study that showed improved math skills after exposure to chess, AL.com reported. "The researchers randomly gave black high school students from the rural South 120 hours of chess instruction. They then administered math proficiency tests and found that students                                                             who received the chess instruction scored better than those who                                                             did not."

"Chess allows students to think critically, to strategize, to plan moves several steps ahead, and to think about consequences of moves," said Dr. Chad Witherspoon, superintendent of the Birmingham City
Schools in a new promotional video. "It gives students an opportunity to think at a different level."

United Kingdom (England) too...

Across the Atlantic a similar chess push is underway, as an ideologically diverse group of political leaders in the United Kingdom is now pushing for chess integration into public schools.

"The skills involved in playing chess are actually skills that a lot of young people can benefit from learning, especially children who have problems with attention and hyperactivity," Qureshi, a member of parliament, said.