Real Life Heroes™ #6, 7: One good deed funds another

[thatcrazycajun]

The list of Real Life Heroes™, people who show us the best in humanity in a time when we are all too often confronted with the worst, just keeps on growing. Last week, you will recall, I inducted the local cinema multiplex manager and his assistant who gave a 10-year-old leukemia patient a free private screening of Spider-Man 3, complete with behind-the-scenes tour and snacks. (See previous entry here.)

Now comes, again courtesy of our local paper, a story about two newly-minted graduates of Emory University, Atlanta's preeminent local college, who each are giving an astonishing and heart-lifting amount of themselves to help others, right out of the box: Elizabeth "Liz" Sholtys through establishing a foster facility for homeless children in India, The Ashraya Initiative; and Robert "Robbie" Brown for helping her fund it with his own academic/citizenship excellence grant, donated to Sholtys in toto.

I'm getting a very strong feeling that, whatever failure my generation and its predecessors had in running the world, the future is in very good hands. (And I also have a feeling that these two young'uns are gonna be wooed like crazy and fought over tooth-and-nail by prospective employers...if they haven't been snapped up already.)

Robert Brown & Liz Sholtys: Leaders in Campus Life and Philanthropy