Archive for December 23, 2009
Walk2gether begins in one week
The walking begins in one week!
On Dec. 29, CFCA President Bob Hentzen will embark on Walk2gether, an 8,000-mile, 16-month journey through 12 countries in Latin America.
Excitement and anticipation are building as families and CFCA staff in Guatemala prepare to bid Bob and his fellow travelers “Buen Viaje.” More than 65 sponsors participating in the mission awareness trip will also be on hand for the launch.
Meanwhile, CFCA staff in Kansas gave Bob an official send-off when he visited the headquarters in late November. Read more here.
Check out the new Walk2gether website, where you can follow Bob on an interactive map, and explore links to his electronic journals and to videos, slideshows and stories about the realities, people and activities in the countries he visits. You can also send messages of support and encouragement that Bob will share with the families of sponsored members and the CFCA staff in the communities he visits.
Walk2gether is a way to help counterbalance the isolation of people living in poverty, and show them that someone cares. The walk will help build community and strengthen the bonds of unity between CFCA’s sponsored members, sponsors and staff. It will also symbolize and promote the unity of countries, races, languages, genders and creeds. Visit Walk2gether.org to learn more.
December 23, 2009 at 9:51 pm Christian Foundation for Children and Aging (CFCA) 2 comments
Preparing for the Mayon volcano eruption
As you may have read on our Web site, it is likely that the Mayon volcano in the Philippines will erupt very soon. This endangers many CFCA sponsored families, but the CFCA projects in the area have been preparing for this type of disaster long before it became a reality.
Chris Palmer, CFCA project specialist, was in the Philippines last month. While there, he attended a disaster preparedness seminar for sponsored families devoted to this very threat – volcano eruption.
The following are his photos and experiences from the training:
Provincial agencies team up with aid agencies to conduct seminars on how to prepare for disasters such as typhoons, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The presenter used Google Earth to show the mothers and fathers the different areas that could be affected by volcanic eruptions.
Mothers and fathers from a CFCA project in the Philippines learn about disaster preparedness.
A photo of the Mayon volcano from Legazpi City (taken near the 8 KM danger zone).
Close-up of the Mayon Volcano (taken from the airport in Legazpi City). You can clearly see smoke being emitted from the crater at the top of the volcano.
The CFCA Legazpi project has been organizing and conducting these types of disaster preparedness seminars in many of the subprojects around the city and in the province of Albay as a way to be proactive in an area of the world where natural disasters are unfortunately common place.
Read more about how CFCA is helping these families prepare on the CFCA Web site.
December 23, 2009 at 2:16 pm Christian Foundation for Children and Aging (CFCA) Leave a comment
