Giving Kids the World, with WCI

(Image: www.givekidstheworld.org)

It’s hard to believe that it was nearly a year ago when I first became personally involved with Give Kids the World, a Kissimmee, Fla.-based storybook-themed village that hosts seriously and sometimes terminally ill children and their families for a week while they enjoy Orlando’s theme parks, all free of charge.

Give Kids the World’s continued efforts provide this gift of quality, carefree time spent together by families who get a welcome, much-needed respite from hospitals, doctors and diagnoses. It’s an experience during which these children can just be kids for a week, and simply enjoy themselves, the way that all children should. It’s an incredible thing to witness, and it makes you take stock of your own blessings in a way that few other things can.