Mexico’s Tarahumara Indians, who eke out a bare existence in caves high in the Western Sierra Madre mountains, lost 400 people this winter to hunger and bitter cold. But the startling death toll hardly caused a tear to be shed among this hardy race.
“We must remember the lesson of taking third world problems one at a time. If you sit down and try tot solve the total African problem, you find yourself becoming almost impotent. The key is helping one person at a time.” This is a loose quote from Harry Belafonte’s We Are the World press conference in 1985.
My daughter Mary and wife Elizabeth traveled through Ethiopia in January of 2008. While we were there we set the foundation of starting an orphanage and helping children learn English.
To whom it may concern,
My name is Xiyun Duan, a graduate student of Ball state University, majoring in Educational Administration and Supervision that is a program to train school administrators in the U.S. I came to America with a purpose and I believe study here can help me reach my goal that is to establish a school in rural part of China. It’s been a long journey that I’m confirmed by the vision and I really appreciate once only a dream but now is turning into a destination I’m driving to.
