The Inspiration Shop

It’s about making people who feel like a nobody, feel like a somebody.

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Updrafts – Sources of Inspiration and HopeTom DavisFH Chief Program OfficerTOPS Senior Specialist for SBC

We stair steps:It keeps getting

better…

To how many of your friends who work outside of child survival can you say, “you know – concerning your work – it just keeps getting better, doesn’t it?? ”

Crazy (but true) Science: We are hardwired for the

“right kind of happy”Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (July 2013):

“… [study subjects] whose happiness … was primarily …based on consuming things, had surprisingly unhealthy [gene expression] profiles, with relatively high levels of biological markers known to promote increased inflammation throughout the body … linked to the development of cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.”

“The [study subjects] whose happiness was more …based on a sense of higher purpose and service to others … had profiles that displayed augmented levels of antibody-producing gene expression and lower levels of the pro-inflammatory expression.”

Steven W. Cole (senior author): “Our genes can tell the difference” between a purpose-driven life and a shallower one even when our conscious minds cannot… [So don’t worry about selfish people and Libertarians who want to destroy foreign aid – they will be cast out of the gene pool. Wait them out.]

Article: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/23/what-our-genes-reveal-about-true-happiness/. Original Study: http://www.pnas.org/content/110/33/13684.full.pdf

CS Resources:

Not Scratching the Surface?

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Hours Dedicated to FH/Mozambique Care Group Project by Group

Sofala Province, Mozambique (Oct '05 - Sept '10)

Volunteers

Promoters

FH/Moz Local Manag.

FH/US staff

• Value of Volunteer time (@$2.95/8 hrs): $904,811 • In US in 2007, 53,207 children died (0-19y) … 100K parents … an

untapped resource for advocacy and action?? “We can lower child deaths 30% and malnutrition 38% at 55 cents per capita per year – do you want to do something about that?”

FH Bolivia study – Mothers who believed that “God wants all children to survive” were 15 times more likely to have a well-nourished child. Giving others hope is a child survival intervention.