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[This article is abridged from a longer version, which is at: https://westernfriend.org/media/48-windows-campaign-unabridged]
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[This article is abridged from a longer version, which is at: https://westernfriend.org/media/48-windows-campaign-unabridged]
Dear Editor:
Enclosed are my memories of how the Guatemala Scholarship Fund (now “Progresa”) was started in the small Quaker meeting in Guatemala. The 1974 letter of appeal (enclosed) seems almost naively amusing! Please edit these in any way you feel appropriate.
– Pat Habicht, Taos, NM
Three letters from Friend Pat Habicht of Taos, NM, which demonstrate some of the growth in the Progresa program since 1974.
Tex of Val Liveoak's keynote presentation to 2018 PeaceQuest, describing the nearly twenty-five-year history of Friends Peace Teams.
When Veronica Obodo-Eckblad is asked about her escape from war-torn Nigeria as a seven-year-old, she is cryptic. That’s because her emphasis – actually, her life’s focus – isn’t on herself. What drives her is her commitment to others and to a dream. That dream morphed into conviction and then into reality. But we are getting ahead of ourselves in this gripping story, so let’s settle down.
