A big thank you to the Rose Foundation for donating a suite to the Little Heroes Foundation for the Utah Jazz vs. Sacramento Kings game on January 28. LHF was able to invite the families of Gavin and Mekhai (pictured below) to attend the game.
Gavin and Mekhai are the best of friends and they had a wonderful time dancing to the music and watching the basketball game. It was a treat to meet their families and watch their kids enjoy the atmosphere of the basketball game.
There is something magical about the combination of helping others while receiving nothing tangible in return that gets into your soul and takes you on a magical journey.
Jessica Braithwaite is a mother of five, lives in Highland, Utah, and has been on many magical journeys throughout her life.
I met Jessica four years ago as she volunteered at my annual basketball camp. She was busy helping children sign up, get their T-shirts, name tags and welcome them to camp.
It didn’t take me long to see she was swallowed up in the joy of service.
When I asked her about the importance of service, Jessica said, “It is such a gift to have the opportunity to serve, you can’t help someone else without helping yourself.”
Jessica, who now works for the Little Heroes Foundation, recently flew to Nepal, leaving her family behind, and helped open a health clinic.
Situated between India and China, Nepal is the poorest country in Asia. With an estimated 30 million people living there, many Nepalese people live on $1 a day or less and 85 percent of the people have no access to health care.
Jessica went to Nepal in November 2011. She spent one week in Nepal, walking hours and hours to provide free health services to people in rural areas. She rode elephants, met amazing people and coordinated the official opening of the Sunshine Heroes Health Clinic, named after the Little Heroes Foundation and its founding sponsor, Nature’s Sunshine Products in Provo.
