This is NOT a job for superheroes

Caped wonders with super powers have been created throughout history during times when people were in dire need of "heroes". They could fly or do a Houdini from the arch-rival's snare. But, these heroes stay on the comic book (or the silver screen). Hence, we in the real world face challenges ourselves--sans super powers. Whether it's families breaking apart or declining literacy in the country, it is we who answer the call from where we are, with what we have.

Saturday, October 28, 2006

Bean there, done that

Beans that grow hope
An aid group heals hatred in Rwanda by getting historically hostile ethnic groups to grow coffee together.

By Melanie Stetson Freeman | Staff photographer

BUTARE, RWANDA – The "land of a thousand hills" is in the midst of an uphill climb back to normalcy. Known for the genocide that a decade ago claimed 800,000 lives in 100 days as Hutus massacred Tutsis, Rwandans may find that one road to healing leads through their country's thousands of coffee fields, where Hutus and Tutsis now grow their crop - together.

Saturday, October 28, 2006

Bean there, done that

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