Well-Being For All

Greetings From Honduras

The unpredictable and unseasonable weather of the last year is in evidence in Honduras this year. I am here working on some long standing issues and visiting some village project people.

After a month of heavy rain, last night the air temperature reached 11 degrees. ELEVEN! I watched children in bare feet and half clothed run around to keep warm. Their homes are anything but warm against the cold misty nights up here in the clouds.

The illness and death rates would be MUCH higher if not for the volunteer coordination and work of Mary and Gord Burbidge of Listowel, ON. In the last three years, volunteers in their program have knitted over 7,000 vests and 2,500 toques for chidren in this poor mountain area. They are everywhere! It is an amazing rainbow of colour on healthier children.

It is more than a gift of time and some scrap wool. It is HEALTH and LIFE.
GRACIAS A TODOS! THANK YOU ALL!

From Siguatepeque, Honduras

Terry Fielder
Executive Director
World Accord

posted by World Accord @ 5:26 PM