curious to
find out more about what they do, check out the new issue of the Joining
Hands newsletter, specifically the Cameroon section, at
http://www.relufa.org/partners/jhnewsletter/cameroon.htm
It's full of information about what RELUFA does and some of our recent
work. One of Ann's articles, already posted here, is in there, along
with lots of other information and pictures, and even a small video.
Joining Hands is a program of the Presbyterian Church USA that addresses
global injustice and poverty, and a strong supporter of RELUFA's work.
Christi, who returns to Cameroon this month with her family, and for
whom we are housesitting, works for Joining Hands here in Cameroon, and
thus works closely with RELUFA.
I am curious whether our church in San Francisco, First Mennonite, is
involved in something like Joining Hands, which is more interested in
figuring out why people are poor or hungry or powerless in the first
place, and addressing that, than in providing handouts. Give a man a
fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll just have to
hand it over to get his kids into a school that the law says is supposed
to be free. Poverty is complicated.
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