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| Photo by Ben Stechschulte |
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving
and there are more reasons to be thankful than we can count. We have good friends and loving family here
and abroad. We have the necessities to
live and we have luxuries like internet and computers. We have wonderful people we work with day in
and day out. And we have supporters like
you who keep this Center going.
We have a doctor who when a
special need arises will give through his family foundation…he has rebuilt the
volunteer bus, hired a nurse for a year, and is helping the orthopedics
program…and on top of all that, he volunteers.
Once Again Nut Butter
supports our growers giving them fair prices, negotiates face-to-face, and has
even given to the Center’s budget by donating part of their tahini
proceeds. Their-Bucks supports the
coffee growers, also gives farmers fair prices, negotiates face-to-face, and
when they were here last fixed the Center’s water pump which lowers our costs.
Students at Bucknell raise
funds all year round to support the clinic.
They have fund raisers and sometimes they raise the equivalent of one
year’s tuition at Bucknell and - believe you me - that is no little change!
We have donors who faithfully
give monthly. We have a few who tithe to the Center. Some respond to each newsletter with comments
and gifts. We even had a donor, Georgia
Quirk, who has supported this work for years.
She began generously donating quarterly, and in the first part of this
year she sent us a check for her whole pledge for 2012 stating it was her last
gift, because she found she had stage 4 cancer.
It was not her last gift. Her last gift to us was her love and
encouragement for us to keep up the good work.
She always wrote the sweetest notes to us that just warmed the cockles
of my heart. We just learned she died on
September 12. We will remember her with
gratefulness.
On this Thanksgiving we thank you one and all!
