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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…
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?…
Buddhist Beauty in Architecture
A engineering professor commented to the students he was leading to Southeast Asia that they should look carefully at the way things are made, because so many things are made differently and so many challenges are solved differently than we do it here. Love0 Share Share Share Pin
Wonder: What Was It Like In SE Asia in 1100 AD? Angkor Wat Ancient Heritage Site
We walk in the Cambodian sun with hundreds of other tourists to wonder and listen and to try to imagine what in must have been like in the year 1100 when this place was at the height of its glory. The guide tells us about one hundred thousand laborers and hundreds of elephants who toiled…
Breakfast: On the Road In Southern Cambodia
Give us this day our daily bread…..or rice, or noodle soup, or tortillas and beans? I’ve gotten to like breakfasts on the road in Cambodia. The choices usually come down to variations of noodle soup and fried rice. But, last week we happened upon a breakfast spot in Takeo Town that was full up with…
Cultural Differences in The Relationships of Human Beings and Animals
The relationships between human beings and the animals we share our earth with vary tremendously. In North American and Western Europe many people relate to their dogs as though they were their children. Is this more often true for people who don’t have children?) In this blog I’ll share a few pictures of human beings…
The Man Who Stopped the Desert. Wonder–God Is Working In People You Might Not Expect
The last blog was about our work in Laos, where we work with people who live with rain forests that are under threat because of land clearing because the price of corn is so high. (Partly because of so much corn is being used to produce ethanol.) This blog relates to a very different environment,…
Asian Circles of Conversation: Sitting on the Floor or on the Ground
Asia offers a whole new world of experiences for the Westerner. Learning to enjoy tea and conversation while sitting on the floor is one. For me there is a refreshing equalizing feeling about this thing of sitting on the floor together. It feels like we are all coming down to the same level because we…
Yun & Neum: A Cambodian Couple Raise Cows to Support Their Children
In reflecting on my time last week in Cambodia, I think that one of the most rewarding moments was the time we spent talking with a couple who are working to support their kids in school. Yun, the husband and Neum, the wife received one cow from the Love Cambodia cow bank and will pay…