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V O L U M E 2 , I S S U E 1 J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 1
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WATER
VACCINES
New Year blessings, lessons learned
On my first trip to Zambia, live simply like them. I was
 FOOD back in 2007, I did not know amazed at how happy
what to expect. My these people were with as
perceptions here in America little as they had and I
of rural Africa were very poor wanted it for myself.
unhappy people, I learned
that was far from reality.
I was flabbergasted at how
they could be happy without
the big house, large salary,
fabulous toys until I found
that the very things we in
America strive so hard for
are the very things that
keep us from this very
peace and joy these people the people of rural Africa, to
possessed without these help them meet their basic
I found humble, kind and material things. human needs.
happy people. I found they
had the same 'root' desires as Many of us think these
myself, those of love from My hope and prayer is to
successes, these toys and offer them assistance to
family, friends and community material possessions will
and of health, longevity and meet these basic needs,
fulfill some need, only to allowing them to enjoy the
peace.
fruit of family and community
“if you think you they already own, hopefully
are too small I discovered that with a longer life with greater
to make a the struggles health to enjoy the blessing
difference in they had were of of family longer and
the most basic healthier. They already
this world, you
human needs of possess far more than many
have never
water which Americans, peace, love and
been in a room prevented them joy in the simplest of
with a from healthy pleasures. Now if I can bring
mosquito” crops to feed them water, food and
themselves and vaccines...maybe they can
protect teach me something. Or
African proverb
themselves from everything :-).
disease causing death to
those they love. I learned find simple emptiness that
that I had far more in common can not be filled without Join me in this effort to
with them than different. God and human change lives, it will change
connection. your life too. May this New
Year be filled with blessings
I discovered a new place in These very thoughts are for you and your family...and
my heart, one of a desire to what drive me to help the people of rural Zambia.

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To provide wells, vaccines and food
for farming in the remote villages of
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Africa to meet the most basic human
needs of the villagers reducing death
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GROW Africa’s Board of Directors
Kathy Hardtke F. Jeff Porzig
President Board Member
Pat Kolodziej
Treasurer
Justin Pickering
Trace Fasano Board Member
Vice President Sandra Larkin
Secretary