Ecuador
Cuenca and the health clinic
[Ecuador] I did a site visit to CARE Ecuador projects. We were in a health clinic and I heard about a great need for a refrigerator to store vaccines and antibiotics. The CARE budget couldn’t cover it, so I said “I’ll do it.” Later I sent $850 and got back pictures and receipts. My sisters, […]
The town of Rio Verde
[Ecuador] Moritz Thomsen is one of the couple writers who has spoken most deeply to me. In 1965, when he was 45 or so, he gave up pig farming in California and joined the Peace Corps. He ended up staying the rest of his life in Ecuador, buying a farm and living among the poorest […]
Up the Rio Santiago to Playa de Oro
[Ecuador] I observed a development project that was helping several communities of Afro-Ecuadorians living up a coastal river. We had missed the plane to Esmeraldas from Quito. So then, in the enveloping equatorial darkness, we stuck all the video gear into one of the trucks and took off for the 12 hour climb over the […]