School's Out For Summer

2019-10-15T20:41:55+00:00April 16th, 2014|Blog, Disaster Response, International Disaster Response (IDR), Philippines|

PHILIPPINES - It was 88°F when I landed at 11:30 at night April 4th. Summer has arrived in the Philippines and classes are finished for 2 months. Graduation was on Monday April 7th for those finishing elementary or highschool. One of our staff in Tacloban was so proud of his two kids graduating, but it was bittersweet for him. He has many friends, other fathers, whose children would have graduated, but were lost in the Yolanda typhoon. Every milestone is going to be a trigger.

Chocolate Bars in the Rainforest

2019-10-15T20:24:44+00:00April 16th, 2014|Blog, Food Security, Nicaragua|

There is a great river that winds like a ribbon along the northern border of Nicaragua called the Rio Coco. Dense, tropical rainforest surrounds it, stretching for hundreds of miles on all sides. Thousands of animal species make their home here and as a lesser known fact, so do thousands of people.

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