The Center was fortunate to host a Brigade from This cooperative is an amazing testimony to the power of people working together for the common good. They disagree in religion and politics, but they agree on economics…to take care of each other and therefore have a quality of life that would otherwise be unheard of. They work together, share their resources including donations, and they keep the 2000 acres that would have long ago been taken by a bank.
This trip included 31 people. El Porvenir is 100 a kilometer trip but it takes well over three and a half hours to get there, because 26 kilometers is down a dirt road and the last 5 kilometers is straight up the mountain…no hairpin curves on this baby!
With this large of a group we take the bus and two other vehicles. We get to the bottom of the mountain, we usually split the group up…half ride in the trucks and half ride in a trailer pulled by the cooperative’s tractor BUT THIS time, the co-op was hosting another group of close to twenty and had the tractor in use…so up we go with 31 people in two trucks. Many bargains were made with the universe if we made it safely…fortunately those bargains are now being called in.
The importance of this brigade going to see these amazing people is two-fold…for the students to learn and for their campus doctor to see patients. Dr. Don Stechschulte has now come to
-- Kathleen
