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What’s It Like to Live On Top of An Ancient Mayan City?
Right across from our house in Corozal Town in Belize is the ancient city site of Santa Rita. It was one of the last Mayan cities to be active. One of the good things is that Santa Rita sits in a minature national park, and about 20 years ago a caretaker named Pedro planted lots…
What Does Our Search For “The Beach” Really Cost?
One of the themes of this blog is wonder, especially the sense of wonder and awe at our amazing Creator, the amazing creation and the amazing people in the creation. I think that there is a longing within us all to experience places and people that fill our need to wonder. In developing countries ecological…
Opium Freedom Journey
A previous blog told about families in a Thai village becoming free from opium addiction and what that freedom means for husband-wife relationships. To gain this freedom people needed economic alternatives as well as changes of heart. In Laos World Renew helps send opium addicts to rustic treatment centers and also helps opium producing villages…
Freedom From Opium: Changes Gender Relationships
One of the scourges that keeps people poor everywhere in the world is addiction to drugs. World Renew encounters this addiction and poverty, especially in Laos and we are trying to help people gain their freedom from this addiction. This article is written by Joe Oh, a Calvin College student who recently studied in northern…
What is this strange bird?
Do you think this bird is some sort of vulture? If you live in Canada or the USA and have a “front lawn,” how would you like to wake up in the morning and see one of these guys standing in your front yard? One of the strangest looking birds that I’ve ever seen…
How Does Amaranth, Ancient Crop of the Aztecs Help People in Africa?
During the past 2 weeks East African people have shared many stories about how grain amaranth flour, and eating the leaves, too—-has helped them enormously! People living with AIDs whose CD-4 counts sat in the low hundreds see their count and their strength rise steadily after getting the anti-retro-viral meds and taking amaranth porridge every…
Longing and Living For Peace with Justice
Moises Colop, a former World Renew colleague in Guatemala, pictured above, used to talk with me about “la lucha de los pueblos.” He meant the struggle of the peoples and nations to have deep freedom— a freedom of peace with justice. Five hundred years after the Spanish conquest, Moises saw the continuing struggles of the…
What Happened to the Roman’s Streets and Buildings?
Descend down to the Milan subway train. Then, to one side is a glass window. You peer through it and look at some blocks. A little sign says that these are the street blocks that the city’s people built in the days of the Roman Empire. Wow. How did that street get buried so deep?…
You’ll Never Imagine What These Giant Jars in Laos Were Used For
Once in a while, we encounter something from the past that makes us wonder: What did they do with that? One of the regions that World Renew works in Laos, is adjacent to a mysterious place called the Plain of Jars. The times I’ve been there it’s been a plain of mostly dry grass. It’s…
Gearing Up To Discover What’s Been Happening With Amaranth In East Africa
I’m looking forward to an opportunity in April to evaluate the long-term impacts of World Renew’s promotional work on grain amaranth. Starting in 1998, but especially in the years 2006 and 2007, we made a special effort to teach farmers and mothers how to grow and how to prepare grain amaranth for eating. Love0 Share…