Hi, my name is Homer Hancock and I celebrate my 100th year of life on planet earth September 20, 2010 at Copper Ridge Care Center in Redding, California USA. I have been blessed with a long life, a wonderful wife and family and the joy of giving my time, talent and treasure for causes that transform peoples lives. I am a sports fan, and I have a dream.
My son asked me how I would like to celebrate my birthday. I told him I had a dream of a stadium filled with 100,000 sports fans making a wave that would never end, helping transform the lives of families without hope and a future. You and I did not pick our place of birth and neither did the 3 billion people that live on less than $2 each day. We have been blessed with the opportunity to feed ourselves with surplus to share.
US Ambassador Tony Hall renowned authority on world hunger and poverty and Hall of Fame Coach Tom Osborne extended the invitation to celebrities and sports fans to join them as charter champions of the end poverty zone campaign. I am signing up. Imagine 100,000 fans and people of goodwill ending poverty for 200,000 families (1 million people) each year. Livelihood loans and savings enterprises recycle every six months to new families eager to provide for their own livelihoods and solve their own problems.
I am nearly blind, so I have asked my son to help me inform all cyber connected folks of my birthday wish and invite sports fans and people of goodwill to join Ambassador Hall and Hall of Fame Coach Tom Osborne in the campaign to end poverty in one generation. Sports celebrities and fans from around the world can pick their favorite sport and team to compete with other teams to win the ultimate game against poverty. Champion teams from each sport will be recognized annually. The team with the most tickets to free families with livelihood projects wins.
My dream is to see the first 100,000 charter champions start the wave to provide a future with hope for the hungry half of our world. I have always been an advocate of free enterprise. When I learned that poverty could best be addressed with the help of a loan or savings rather than a hand out I said, "count me in."
Did you know that $100 can provide two families living on less than $2 each day with a livelihood for a lifetime? Everyone can make a world of difference as a champion in the end poverty zone. I hope to live to see the day when one family per each beat of my heart will be freed forever from physical and spiritual poverty.
My doctor just put a stethoscope on my chest. I asked her, "How do I stand?" She said, "That is what puzzles me!" She informed me, "You will live to be 100. I told her I am 100 this year and she said, "See! What did I tell you?
I am bald. but still see my barber, Kelli, regularly. She charges me a finders fee. She told me some good news my last visit, "You definitely qualify for heaven as the Bible says, "There will be no parting there." Humor is my medicine and I "overdoze" now and then.
God bless you and all the families desperately needing livelihoods for a lifetime. Build the ultimate field of dreams and join the dream team in a cause worth remembering. Homer Hancock
Homer Hancock is a 100 year old retired resident of Redding California. His career has been diverse as an athelete, businessman, forester, painter, father, grandfather, greatgrandfather, mentor and coach. Homer was married for 73 years to his bride and pride and joy LaVera Mabel (McKnight) Hancock before her homegoing at age 98. His outlook "the best is yet to be" enhances his health and energy. Homer loves God, family and the USA. He also is an avid sports fan. http://www.ProvidenceInternational.org
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