“One of my favorite examples of (charity) is the subject of a forthcoming Hollywood movie called The Little Red Wagon.  In 2004, after Hurricane Charley, a six-year-old boy in the Tampa area named Zach Bonner wanted to help the families who had been left homeless.  Pulling his little red wagon, Zach went door to door for four months and collected 27 truckloads of supplies, including tarps and water.”  (Adam Meyerson, Imprimis, January 2010).

“Many of those who have been involved in the legions of Church humanitarian efforts during the past quarter of a century, remember the work in the faces of a few.

“For Brother Ferguson, it’s the elderly Kenyan woman who walked five miles a day for more than 40 years to get water.

“A church project in the late 1980s changed her plight.  As part of the project, snowmelt from Mount Kenya was piped to more than 20 villages in the country.

“The lady said, ‘I can’t believe it.  I can’t believe it.’  It was one of those moments that you don’t forget because of what it meant to her,” Brother Ferguson said.

“For Brother Flake, the image is a child wrapped in a warm blanket.  After a 2005 earthquake devastated a portion of Pakistan, victims there faced a long, cold winter.  Other organizations had not seen the need, so the Church sent 200,000 blankets, 5,000 tents and other supplies.

“And for Elder Pace, it was an old man who stumbled into an Ethiopian camp in 1985 with a baby.  The man had carried the baby 50 to 75 miles after finding him on a roadside near a dead woman he assumed was the child’s mother.

“As he arrived thirsty, hungry and delirious, the first words he uttered were, ‘What can be done for this baby?’ recalled Elder Pace.  ‘Can anyone doubt the love the Savior felt for this man?  I have never loved a stranger more.’”  (Church News, February 6, 2010, pg. 5).