My little super heroes

This is Hanna and Deborah.







Meet the Pinkerton clan, Hanna, Deborah, Isaih and Noah. Isaih is the boy in the green shirt, sitting in the stroller below. Deborah is sitting on top of the stroller and behind Isaih. All four children are adopted and each of them have something so amazing and unique about them. Deborah and Noah (the six yr old I mention in my previous post below) are living proof that even children with special needs, can survive and thrive when given a chance. They were left in an orphanage system that pretty much deemed them as unworthy, high risk and unfit to adopt. Paul and Sandy Pinkerton didn't think that and they are alive and well.



Paul is on the left and Sandy is on the right.





Isaih was born with a condition in his eyes that left him legally blind. He is a quiet boy who rather listen to books on DVD's/CD's or play with his Nintendo DS. You would think he is quiet but he shows his compassion and sympathy already at an early age. I think he is nine yrs old. Anyway, Paul told us a story about this street begger in HCMC that they would see everyday on the way to the market. The street begger did not have the use of his legs and would have to pull his body across the street everyday because he could not afford a wheelchair. Well Isaih said one day that he wanted to give this street begger some money every time they went to the market. So he would start giving him 30,000 dong which is almost equivalent to $2 U.S. dollars. One day they went to market and saw the street begger sitting in a wheelchair. Isaih asked where he got the wheelchair from and the man said he bought it with the donations from Isaih and was eternally grateful. I think that is an absolute invaluable life lesson for this boy. Here he is almost completely blind and here is this man that was even worse off than him. We are so quickly easy to be judgemental and come to conclusions. Now I know this story is more an exception. Most people will avoid street beggers because we assume that they will use the money for drugs or alchohol. That may be mostly the case and unfortunately it's a sad world out there.