Lottery day dreams.

I have spent many an hour daydreaming about winning the lottery. Sometimes l feel it very strongly that l will win, i feel so sad when the staff in Centra check my ticket and say...not a winner.

When l was pregnant with my first child l went through a lot of nights where l would wake in the early hours and sleep would escape me.  i was too tired to read.  one night/morning l decided to plan what l would do with a big lottery win, in the event of me winning it.
I felt like having a plan for the windfall would take some of the shock and stress out of the situation.

Now l genuinely would give bucket loads of it away.  But to be fair l always said if we could pay off our mortgage and had nothing left over that would be a godsend in itself.

Then we could give huge amounts of the cash to charity.  Local, national and international charities.
There are so many charities dear to my heart this would be a dream.

I made the dream very real. I set up my own charitabe foundation and this in itself would provide a job for life for myself, my husband and some of our lovely friends.

I made a list of charities locally.  As a social Worker l am aware of huge gaping holes in terms of service provision for the most vulnerable members of our society.  The same goes for nationally.
on an international scale there are  charities l donate durilng the year, but especially at Christmas.

It is a day dream l love taping into. The thought of helping those who devote their lives to helping others.  The thought of being able to effect positive change is a truly wonderful experience.

As  a Social Worker you can give your life to trying to help individuals, groups and families.  Some clients are resistant and do not want your help, other families have heartbreak that can never be changed so you work towards acceptance with them.  Other work you do requires services and funding that simply does not exist.

So to win the lottery and to be in a position to help a family modify a home for a wheelchair user, or pay for a hoist, or help a family pay for relief nursing, or to help a community have the funding to create a new playground, build a youth cafe, a centre for mothers and children, extra services for hungry and homeless, provide appropriate social activities for addicts in recovery...well to be able to do this...now that is priceless

Internationally to be able to help with schools for children, provide teachers, to provide school supplies, to train locals to be the teachers in their own schools, to provide a family with the means to feed themselves, to provide a family with alternative energy ideas such as harnessing solar power to run their homes.   the stuff that real dreams are made of