Let’s hear a tale about BEING CONTENT WITH WHAT WE HAVE together. Once upon a time, there was a businessman who was sitting on the beach in a small Italian village.As he sat, taking a brief break from the stress of his daily schedule, he saw a fisherman rowing a small boat back into the harbor….
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Let’s hear a tale about DETERMINATION together. Long Long ago, there was a lake of cold water in Kenya. Many animals came at night to the lake to drink some water. But people never came to the lake at night. The animals could kill and eat them.Now, a rich man who had a beautiful daughter once said,…
Let’s hear a tale about OUR OWN UNIQUE VALUES together. At the beginning of a new school year, a class teacher stands up in front of her students holding a $100 bill.She tells them, “Put your hands up if you want this money”.Every hand in the room goes up, to which the teacher says, “I am…
Let’s hear a tale about KINDNESS together. Long, long ago the chief of the Dagomba people had a son. He loved the boy so much that he could not sleep if the boy was not near him at night. One evening the chief sat under a big tree near his house. Some Dagombas sat around…
Let’s hear a tale about GIVING UP TO BROAD A NEW HORIZON together. “Do you know how hunters of old used to trap monkeys?” A man asked his child.Rather than chasing them up a tree or shooting arrows from below, they’d put a heavy glass jar with a narrow neck on the floor, which had the monkeys’…
Let’s hear a tale about GENEROSITY together. One a chief decided to give a feast for his people. He sent his men to every village.They told the people to come to the chief’s house and said, “The Chief asks each of the men to bring one bottle of palm wine and pour it into a pot at…
Let’s hear a tale about POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE NATURAL WORLD together. “Don’t go near the well! Don’t play around with it!” Mother Hen said to her children. And they never came to the well.But once a little chicken ran to the well and stopped there. “Why is the well so bad?” he thought. “I am…
Let’s hear a tale about NATURE together. One day, a very long time ago, some of Naayire people went hunting.They walked and walked in the bush but found nothing. When night came, they were very far from home. “We must sleep in the bush,” the chief said, “We must find a good place to sleep.”The hunters…
Let’s hear a tale about TRUE LOVE together. In Athens, Greece, a young man, Demetrius, has a problem.“Please, Hermia. I love you!”“No, Demetrius. I love Lysander!”“Love is never easy! Let’s run away together!“Helena is Hermia’s friend. She loves Demetrius. “Demetrius, you know Hermia is running away to the forest with Lysander …”‘I’m going to follow them.’‘Well, I’m…
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Let’s hear a tale about THE VALUES OF OUR LIVES together. There was a time when some birds and some animals lived in the sky. The Dog and the Hen lived there, too.One day it was very cold and rainy in the sky. The birds asked the Dog to go down to the earth and bring some…
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