For those of you that don't know him, Eugene "Gene" Stacey is an extraordinary person. Anyone who meets him will agree that he isn't an ordinary student. Gene has cerebral palsy and is legally blind. Even with the challenges he faces, nothing has stopped him from being a trailblazer since kindergarten.
The poet Ogden Nash once reflected on the burden of paying back one's creditors, "Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, none are fun when you set about retiring them." Nash might as well be addressing the college students of present day America, who have accrued the highest amount of personal debt in national history.
Giving to children globally who are disadvantaged from war, disease, and sickness is the goal of Operation Christmas Child. This project supplies Christmas gifts to children who have nothing to open on the holidays. Operation Christmas Child is small part of a humanitarian outreach program called Samaritan's Purse headed by Franklin Graham.