It’s their eyes. That’s what I remember most. Not the smell. Not the dirt and dust stiffening their clothes and hair, crusted on their skin, jammed under their fingernails. I stopped seeing that after awhile. Not the perpetually drippy noses. Not the cheeks on men, women, and babies alike all chapped black. Read the rest…

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I have tried not to let the treatment of women get to me. I’ve fought injustice on the one hand while teaching female-wallflower-living on the other. I’ve worked to increase the opportunities available to women and then turned around and told them (and myself) that the church doesn’t offer those opportunities. I can’t do it…

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We had some technical difficulties, so I thought I’d post the recordings of our conversation for those of you who couldn’t stay up or couldn’t get logged in. Part 1 Watch live streaming video from worldvisionusa at livestream.com Part 2 Watch live streaming video from worldvisionusa at livestream.com Part 3 Watch live streaming video from…

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Paulo has 8 children ranging in ages from 14 years to 6 months. Three of them walk 2 hours to school and 2 hours home. He told us that he used to live near the mines, but it wasn’t a safe place for children. He bought the land in the mountains where we visited him,…

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I want to introduce you to Lizeth. She latched onto my Flip camera at the Special Needs Center where she is a student. Lizeth is just like my kids — figured out the camera’s buttons in about half a second. For the next half hour, she ran around recording everyone she could find, her bubbly…

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