Solidarity Birthday

And you will ask yourself, why a solidary birthday? Allow me to tell you my personal experience in order to explain how this idea came about and, above all, the importance of the decisions we make and the actions we carry out, however transcendental they may seem.

In an era and a society in which children (and older people too) seem to have everything "here, now and now", it is hard to educate in certain values such as solidarity and tolerance, based basically on empathy . It is also hard to convey that things take effort to get them and, above all, that our reality as citizens of a developed country can not be extrapolated to the billions of people who inhabit the planet.

All of that was raised to me the first time my children celebrated their birthday with their friends. What are we going to do with the gifts? They already have more than enough with those they receive from the family. A problem for many who, if they are fathers and mothers, will be familiar.

That year, we asked the attendees to the party that, please, do not buy anything (in our culture of the material it is difficult to understand that nothing happens by arriving empty handed). Our intention was to put a piggy bank and deposit in it what they had planned to spend on the children's gift. We also take advantage (professional defect, give me a group of children that I try to transmit and educate at any time) to propose a series of games related to the reality of the children to whom the money from the piggy bank was going to go. In this way, my children and their friends have heard about poverty, refugees, access to education and gender equality in the charity birthdays celebrated to date, having a great time and without having to go to a ball park to our joy.

A solidary alternative with which we achieve many goals and, above all, involve those we have around an initiative that goes beyond solidarity, because it is a declaration of intentions of what we want to be and do in our lives.

An alternative that many adults are also putting into practice, thus generating a solidarity network of people who want to change reality and who know that most of us already have too many things and it is not bad to share them with others.

In addition, I want to take this opportunity to thank those guests at birthdays who, knowing what it was, boasted an enormous generosity and solidarity filling our money boxes not only with money, but above all with opportunities for our girls and women.

Thank you with all your heart for your involvement, for making solidarity a way of life, for carrying a message of "Take advantage of any moment and any place to act". Any excuse is good to show solidarity.

And the next time you fall another year or have an important event to celebrate (weddings, communions, baptisms), think that giving and receiving solidarity is always very rewarding for you and for those around you. and that, really, it works, it works, because everything adds up.

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