Well-Being For All

Cindy's Perspective

Cindy's Perspective on our experiences so far:

I found the amount of information that I heard today overwhelming at times. I was really fascinated by Pablo and his work and what they’re doing with the agricultural side. There is genius in using the farmer’s as their own scientist. To be able to teach farmer’s who in many cases are not literate to follow a scientific method of developing their own food source for their own micro climate is just genius. I’m not sure how else to describe it. The buy in that’s needed to get people on board to do that kind of thing. As he was explaining with the beans, it’s a very painstaking, detail oriented process. To have a group of people that dedicated to a long term project is really amazing.

What also struck me was the simplicity and the common sense ideas of the silos. The simple solution to a very big problem. The silos mean that the beans and the corn can be sold at a time when the price is better in order to maintain an income for the family throughout the year and they’re then not losing 30% of their crop or having rodents in their house that carries disease. There is no mold this way, it’s just a very simple, powerful solution.

When Marina and Claudia were talking this afternoon, I felt really helpless. Claudia was sitting there and she’s ill and her daughter is ill and thousands of people are ill through no fault of their own. To take on a corporation like that requires so much tenacity and so much courage and they have no resources. People in that situation never have resources. It’s one of the huge injustices in the world. The lead in the environment is going to persist forever unless it’s cleaned up. How will that clean up be forced onto the big business? They don’t want to do it. It’s going to be very costly for them. Caught in that squeeze between Claudia and her family.

Tonight we went to church. I was humbled by the dedication of the pastor from Tegucigalpa. He had to drive for hours to get here for just one family to worship. They were very gracious to us. I was struck again by the familiarity of the community of Christ, even in a language that I can’t understand.

January 6th

posted by World Accord Staff @ 11:51 AM