Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:24 PM 7/10/2004 -0400, you wrote: >Tina > >I have seen the pictures you post on the Web. I have never seen any of the >pictures you have identified as being shown at your fund-raising shows. Marc - The photos that you see on the web are the same ones that I include in my slide shows. I live with families for a week or so and photograph their daily lives to show the people here who do not get a chance to travel to Central America how their money is being used to improve the lives of the people in Honduras and Guatemala. We work with self-development organizations to teach agriculture and animal husbandry using appropriate technology for the areas that we support. Our presbytery also sends medical brigades to the communities that are working with Heifer Project International and we spend one or two days teaching the local health promoters basic first aid and how to use the book "Where There Is No Doctor" The next two or three days the local health promoter work with the doctors in clinics to provide basic health care for all of the surrounding communities. We have definitely noticed a dramatic difference in the communities that work with HPI. However, the biggest differences actually occur in the lives of the people that I take with me to Honduras and Guatemala. For more than 15 years, every single person who has gone with me has gone on to work for development programs through their churches or other developmental agencies. They have all - every single one- said that the trips have been a life-changing experience and every person has said that they would go again any time. I can see and photograph the difference that we are making in communities in Honduras and Guatemala, but I know that the biggest differences are happening here with the people who have gone to Central America with me. Over 200 people have gone with me. Want to go? I'll take anybody, anytime. Tina Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com