It is all around you.

While I was preparing for the Christmas themed session with the Lighthouse kids, what is going to be held by my teem, I once made a break and looked at some social media sites to turn off my brain for some minutes. One of the posts I saw really caught my attention. It was made by an older cousin of mine from Hungary, who has 3 kids. The youngest one of them was born with down syndrome.

This particular post was about him. His mom just wrote a few lines about how much she wants the people who live around them to be able to accept this little boy on the way he is, without feeling sorry for him, or worse case, making fun of him. She asked the readers of her lines to try to start looking at the kids with physical and mental disorders with the knowledge that these little ones make really huge efforts to do the ‘everyday’ things what are just natural to their healthy mates. As an illustration of the post, there was a picture of my little second cousin drawing an adorable picture with a huge smile on his face. Just like every 4-year-old would do.

This post, and especially the context where I read it in made me realise how extremely important the work of Lighthouse is, and how I should work harder than I did before to support the organisation in my service, to helps the best sessions possible for the kids and to raise awareness of the acceptance, furthermore celebration of kids and people with any kinds of disabilities. Since they are everywhere, all around the world (not just in Singapore and Hungary), waiting to be accepted and respected just as any other person.