Today’s Globe and Mail features an interview with Give a Day founder, Dr. Jane Philpott. Our thanks to author Farah Mohamed for highlighting the way a simple idea can light a fire when we join together.

You can read the entire article here, but I’ll leave you with a little taste!

When asked who her heroes were, Jane responded: “In great stories of human progress, we often focus on the great leaders of these important moments in history, but we forget that behind every great name, there are usually thousands of children, women and men who have laboured to make progress possible. Their faces are unknown, their stories are untold, their voices are unheard. But they are my heroes.”