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Almost Half Way to Safety
... forced to decide which child to take to safety first? Whether to help a neighbor with small children before their elderly grandmother a few houses away? To climb on their own roofs or in trees to escape the toxic waters? Or risk disease, injury, and death swimming to higher ground?
I see the Evacuation Center in Cangumbang as a symbol of new life for Cangumbang. A literal lifeline to the people who reside there. Providing ...
To Be Home
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So I'm sipping, staring at that machine that has replaced the curling mustached lips that always smiled at me as I waited for the milk to settle. It's different. No pushing for a place in line, no standing in the hot sun taking in the scent of passing cows, no vibrant green palm trees swaying above the dark red earth. Instead I'm comfortable and alone, isolated in a castle of my preferences. But I've seen ...
Cangumbang Will Survive
... come. Thanks to all of you who have contributed to this project. You have truly given hundreds of people new life and will give them a more optimistic future.
This past weekend Holy Angels raised even more money to go towards building an Ark for Cangumbang. The donation total is at $7000 dollars now. I am ecstatic at the thought that we are almost half way there.
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A Sign of Faithful Generosity
... sake of their children. Some families in Cangumbang have 2 children, but some have 10 children, and from my own experience a surprising number are single mothers. Even a low income, single mother of 5 children in the States would have great difficulty relocating her family easily. Do not forget that the families in Cangumbang are frequently devastated by floods, left without work for days, sometimes without access to ...
Steely Dan
... time but now there's the Steely Dan Picture's to prove it.
Didn't want to jinx our shot by bringing up my bad luck w/ 11/11/11 and the storm of the century last year one year ago. Luckily Steely Dan Bodhisattva took him by the fin, and saved our season for another week.
P.S. I did land the most fish that trip, but I've still never landed a ...