Archive for December 4th, 2008

Poverty is…

…living in a community where there is a canal contaminated to such a degree that everyone is getting respiratory sickness and skin diseases, and having no recourse to do anything about it. As we have written about before, this is the situation in Santa Cruz, the community where Armonía has one of their community centers. [...]

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Happy Birthday, Wes!

Yesterday was Wes’ 27th birthday.  To celebrate, the student at Alheli planned and cooked a wonderful dinner – bistec, flautas de papa, sebolla, and guacamole (steak, potato tacos, green onions, and guacamole).  It was delicious!  And of course, after the meal we shared a delicious and HUGE chocolate cake.  The students informed Wes that there [...]

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