This week we had the great honour of having Biju Thampy, founder of Vision Rescue in India, come and speak to us at our Global Support Office in NSW. Wandering into the room after a morning of meetings, catching up with colleagues, the whole training room was abuzz with midday chatter and an air of curiosity on what to expect with this ‘special With Heart presentation’…

Vision Rescue is a registered non-profit charity involved in feeding, providing non-formal education, medical help, skills training and other kinds of assistance to the addicted and abused street children*. As a company, we entered the journey with Vision Rescue in 2009, with the donation of a bus for their team to utilise in their daily work on the streets in Mumbai....

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Australia has been overtaken by the U.S as the world’s most charitable country in a recent survey*.

As the US is the world’s richest country it makes sense that they’ve climbed to the top spot. Australia, on the other hand, ranks 14th on the world’s richest scale^: so we’ve done well to get the silver medal in generosity.

One would hope that the richer you are, the more you give away. A simple concept but our perception of rich depends on who we have around us. If you live in a community where big houses, boats and cars are the norm, then you won’t be rich until you’ve at least paid off the mortgage. In other nations, however, one cow could make the richest man in your village.

So why don’t we always give more, when we earn more? Perhaps our increased earning gives us new privileges, invites us to a new community. A higher salary may provide income for a property in a more well-off area, around more well-off people, reinforcing the message that’s its normal to be well-off.

But messages...

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