If you were asked to list the things that you are thankful for would you include access to clean water, enough food to eat and a secure place to sleep? For hundreds of millions of people in this world these things are only a dream. Untold children in the world have not one thing they can call their own. Not a cup, not a pencil, nothing. Children will die tonight for lack of the handful of rice they need to sustain them for another day. Women will get up at dawn tomorrow and walk miles to fill a plastic jug with foul water for their family, then do it again the morning after, because its all theyve got. People are living in refugee camps unable to protect or provide for their family.

When you are deciding what to have for dinner tonight, remember that over 60% of people in the world have rice for every meal every day. If you have spare change on your dresser than you are wealthier than 75% of people in the world. Be thankful for what you have, and remember those who are forced to do without things we take for granted.