KERNERSVILLE, N.C. (WGHP) — It’s one thing to hear about the suffering of others. It’s another thing to see it.
That’s at the heart of why sophomore Miah Sumanth, from Bishop McGuinness High School in Kernersville, started the club “Beads of Hope.”
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“I had the opportunity to go on a mission trip to India with my grandparents who started a ministry called Paul J. Sumanth Ministries, and it was after their youngest son died in a car accident in 2000 and they just really felt a call from the Lord to minister to impoverished children in India, and they have started schools and churches there,” Sumanth said. “Not only are the parents working every day, but the kids, four and five years old are already working, so it’s just a huge relief for them to know that their kids are getting fed.”
Even though the children have access to the resources many children in America can, Sumanth was moved by what they could offer.
“Each kid just looked at me with so much love in their eyes, and I just thought how can these people be suffering so much when I have so much, and I can be doing something to help them,” Sumanth said.
She found a way to help by making bracelets.
“Me and my grandma were making bracelets at her house, and I wanted to start a club,” Sumanth said. “And I was like, ‘I could join these two ideas together. I could start a club at Bishop, and we can make bracelets, and then sell the bracelets, and that money could go directly to PJSM where they can use that money to feed the hungry and impoverished.’”
The club launched at the beginning of this school year.
According to the club’s Instagram page, a $10 donation provides six meals for an underprivileged child in India.
Sumanth presented PJSM with a check for $1,430 with money raised outside of school.
“They were so happy. They gave me a big hug and they were just so proud. I’m so glad that I could be a part of this,” she said.
The estimated $780 raised at Bishop McGuinness High School is expected to be sent to PJSM soon.
“I just want people to know that there’s so much suffering in the world and we all have the capability to do something and to help others and to use our lives to bless other people,” Sumanth said. “If each one of us could just do a small thing, if we could each pitch in a little bit, then the world would be a much better place for so many people.”
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