Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/17

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Subject: [Leica] needs color
From: images at InfoAve.Net (Tina Manley)
Date: Thu Aug 17 17:01:50 2006
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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 


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