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Dear Friends: With donors and volunteers we pulled together a group and went to the market and bought mosquito nets for a very impoverished village, one relocated to a land of "nothing" a year ago at the hands of the US Drug War. Americans have not a clue who their government or the likes of UNDP Maria Costa are killing. 73 nets for 73 families, and very happy they were, everyone having a good time in the village while the rice harvest is wrapped up. In the last year since the relocation into oblivion ten babies and two adults in this village died of malaria. The village is within easy access to the NGO's, but they can't explain to us why on THEIR bloated budgets they can not provide nets or other easily recognizeable aid, plenty of trucks and land rovers running around however. So delivering the mosquito nets is a very good success, now we just need to repeat it, forgiving me for being optimistic, but in every village! Don't hesitate to jump in. In one village they had just killed a very large boar that was eating in the rice field, so all the kids were happy about meat. Forced relocations of villages is putting a huge toll on birds, as many of the villages had to get rid of their water buffalo, to make someone happy in America, not sure who would know or who would care apart from pharmaceuticals. We are getting some new search engines on the site, and also, there are links to the Auca situation in Ecuador. The Wycliffe 5 who were killed there, show up in a very different light when one learns of the western exploitation of resources in the world. Now the story has been commercialized, for the religious, into a media consumer frenzy "End of the Spear" check it out on the website http://www.akha.org Lot of pics done for the 3rd Akha Journal which keeps getting bigger. Time for layout and printing, hope there is interst in this as lots of people enjoy the Journal later when it is done, but we need for people to enjoy it now when it still takes help and funds to get finished. I am guessing between 400-600 pages, some where in there. Got to talk to a silver smith yesterday that works on Akha ornaments, very nice what they make for the head dresses. Hope to hear from you soon, Matthew McDaniel The Akha Heritage Foundation. http://www.akha.org Akha Heritage Site. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Akhaweeklyjournal Discussion http://groups.yahoo.com/group/akha Donate Via Credit Card Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=akha%40akha.org PO Box 6073 Salem, OR. 97304 USA. --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nat-International/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
