Marcus Rashford – more needed

Nov 03, 2020 Editorial

Kaieteur News – Sometimes there are people and things that take the breath away. Those inspire others to the quiet humble deeds searched for and discovered deep inside and which are then delivered to those most in need. The people and deeds help immensely. The pity is that there are so few of both, since a hungry needy world could use more from whatever sources they could be found.
A young man, all of 22 years old, has been motivated to do just the things that encourage and lift up. Lift up the weak, those without, the many who could use a helping hand, any hand from anyone. Marcus Rashford, the Manchester United footballing star, is doing so in the United Kingdom. His priority and body of kind work is with a program that delivers school meals. In a time of economic distress and individual and familiar financial stresses, young Marcus is a godsend for those on the receiving end of his generosity with time, interest, energy, and good works.
His works are so impeccable, so moving, that men with the power to decide upon, recommend, and channel these things did place his name and his record before Queen Elizabeth II. As recognition for his humanitarian efforts, the honor and prestige of an MBE award and letters now follows the name Marcus Rashford. It has been earned; it is well-deserved. It is a ray of light in time and world increasingly blighted by thick layers of selfishness, of the covetousness and grabbing now so characteristic in the routine affairs of men.
This is what happens when one, only one, could care enough to want to do something idealistic, yet pragmatic, and then summon the will to fulfill openly the internal visions that stirred to steadfast action.
The record of this young man of the world, a millionaire many times over from his sporting career, this Marcus Rashford, is so awesome, so powerful, that even a bitter opponent from the take-no-prisoners world of sporting competition could be moved to utter a few public words of identification and congratulation. For as reported by the BBC in its online edition dated October 23rd, via an article captioned, “Marcus Rashford: Free school meals campaign ‘incredible’ -Jurgen Klopp” even lifelong adversaries join the growing chorus of heralds.
To elaborate for those who are not football fans, Jurgen Klopp is not just anybody, any well-wisher. He is the manager from hated rivals Liverpool. And even Guyanese who are not football followers should know the fevered intensity to which such rivalries soar, or deteriorate. It can be brutal.
Thus, for Mr. Klopp to step in the public domain and said what he said is a special tribute all by itself. This is what the Liverpool leader had to say: “He plays for United which makes it really tricky.”
And that should convey what is involved, the step taken by Klopp.
He went on to say: “But in these moments we are as footballers and as human beings always united.” And “what Marcus has started is so absolutely incredible. It is so nice.”
What he is doing almost didn’t continue. Additional funding for Marcus’s free school meal program was rejected by MPs, which has since been reversed, and benefits over a million students. The little people, “fish and chip shops, pubs, restaurants, and cafes” number among those places, whose controllers are moved to offer free meals. Indeed, one man could make a difference, move mountains, change his environment for the better, even if only momentarily. But it is a start, something from which to gather others of like mind, to build for better.
We have some citizens, such helping hands, in this society. Though few, they are welcomed for the difference they make. Some of the local energies and philanthropy have been in education, more in healthcare, and still more in steady tireless volunteerism.
Even with all out wealth, and given the huge gaps that still exist and appear to be part of the future, there is a crying need for more of such souls and hearts to come forward and lend a thought converted into the deeds that make a difference. Just like Rashford, Sobhraj, Yesu, and others.

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