30 thousand people wished happy birthday to French man with Down’s syndrome
Lucienne and Jacqueline Parisseaux from France posted in social media Facebook a request so that their friends could spend some minutes and write birthday card to their son Manuel who loves receiving true paper cards.
The elderly couple has only 70 people as friends so nobody supposed that this appeal would be reposted for 110 thousand times, and Manuel would obtain more than 30 thousand cards and parcels with the gifts from different countries. This great amount caused collapse of local post. Presents are moved to the destination by vans; the family of birthday person settles boxes with cards in the neighbors for safekeeping because there is no space at home.
Jacqueline Parisseaux with tears in her eyes confessed to French journalists that such attention and generosity were touching and moving.
«The world is not so indifferent as it seems», - she said.
Indeed, social media plays significant role in our life. If recently everything was limited by communication with ten friends, currently any message may suddenly be spread all over the world and cause heated discussion. These possibilities of social media are used by charitable organizations and volunteers. Receiving message from friend or mate, people are more likely to rise to the fly because they do not afraid of being cheated.
The director of association «Fair Help» Elisaveta Glinka is sure that social media is an amazing instrument of socializing and announcement:
«We actively use the opportunities of Facebook and Twitter in our work, - she says. – We write about something we need now, and people give response. They bring clothes, items, medicines, transfer money to account. People want to help and arrange good deeds, but sometimes they do not know how to do it, where to go. Social media messages help in that».
