Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:10 PM 8/17/2006, you wrote: >His mother told us he had been eating dirt prior to getting sick? In >any case he might have died without ever seeing our >missionaries. I've always wished I'd done more than just >photographing him. You're a doctor and if you tell me I'm way off >base with my "diagnosis" I'll feel better. Still, I'm not sure I'd agree. >:-\ > >Walt Walt - I'm officially retired and don't do any more recruiting, but I wish you could have gone with me on one of my trips to Honduras and Guatemala. We don't proselytize at all. It doesn't matter what anybody believes. Our only concern is to help wherever we can and find other options when we can't. I'm sorry you had a bad experience with mission work, but I can tell you that you can make a difference. After 20 years' experience, I have returned to many, many villages which have been totally transformed by projects with just our presbytery. Corn stalk and thatched roof houses that are now adobe with tile roofs. Goat and chicken and bee projects through Heifer Project International that have enabled rural communities to support themselves so that parents can afford to send their children to school instead of keeping them at home to work. Many, many doctors and dentists have volunteered their time to help train health promoters in the rural communities where people never have the opportunity to visit a doctor. Training the health promoters makes a lasting difference in health care. After working with these communities for 20 years, I am more hopeful than not. If you'd really like to experience what a difference an effective aid program can do, I would recommend that you contact Heifer Project International. I was the most sceptical person ever when I first heard about HPI but I've been won over by the changes I've seen in rural communities in Honduras and Guatemala. http://www.heifer.org/ I'm old and tired and would like to turn all of this over to another person, but I'd like to let you know that you are never too old or tired to make a difference and you don't have to compromise your beliefs to do it. Tina Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA http://www.tinamanley.com http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/dimes_for_hunger