  Perhaps the real benefit of the Howard Dean campaign was the general realization among the American public that small donations can affect real change. Howard Dean asked his political supporters to contribute their widow's mite. Any size donation, be it $10 or $1000 was equally valued. In fact, regular contributions of $10 or $25 together broke the record for most and earliest Democratic contributions ever. The collective urlLink widows' mites together made a mountain. Howard Dean has come and gone, but the power of the small contribution can be the legacy that lives on.
Our world today is experiencing a urlLink ethnocide in Sudan with potential to rate on the humanitarian scale of Rwanda and the Holocaust. Over two million people have already been killed. Today, as I watched the horrors unfold on the href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/lessonplans/world/sudan_genocide.html">Jim Lehrer News Hour , I saw tents in the background stamped with either urlLink OxFam or urlLink UNHCR . That tells me at least these two organizations are on the scene, treating the walking wounded while the various nation states that comprise the United Nations argue about appropriate political responses. Children and their parents, mostly mothers since fathers are the first targets of genocide, anyone strong enough to survive the ravages of warfare and exodus, now gather in refugee camps quickly put together by a handful of aid organizations. They need food and medicine. They need your widow's mite. No matter what hardships you think you have in life, if you're reading this blog right now, you have more than these souls.
Our Judeo/Christian culture holds to the commandment: From those to whom much is given, much is expected. Give now. Give anything. I know at least two organizations are onsite, urlLink OxFam and urlLink UNHCR , and I'm guessing urlLink Doctors Without Borders is there too. urlLink Give $10, or even $25 . I bet you can give $50 if you scrape your budget. I promise, your donation will matter. 
