Whatever your budget surplus, that’s your margin for giving. Start small; find some amount you can give without even thinking about it, rather than one that might prove emotionally difficult, and add it as an off-the-top expense, right alongside your electric bill and your Netflix subscription. Setting that up as a recurring donation removes the barrier of actually making the donation.
The girl I saw had a bright, beautiful face and big expressive eyes. She was standing outside the school gates, clinging to the fence with her fingers laced through the wires and peering in longingly. I knew that this young girl, who I later learned is named Srelin, was not being brought into the school to be enrolled, and I wondered if she ever would be. It was a moment of reflection as I realized that the world would never see the boundless potential she possessed if she was barred from education. I knew in that moment that providing girls like Srelin the tools for self-empowerment was the way that her community, indeed our world, could change for the better.