her person to person interview with DWB in two weeks. We're all hoping/praying for her - she'd be great at it.

And because they are doing such great heroic work, I support them financially every month.

I am proud to stand with them.

They represent the best of humanity as far as I'm concerned!

They do good work and according to Charity Watch they are very efficient with their money. Like 94 to 96% of the money goes to helping people, not administration fees etc.. Good job.
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I was on a Search and Rescue mission and worked around their facilities quite a bit.

They earned my eternal respect and gratitude. They did some unbelievable things in some horrible conditions.

They are my goto charity that I support every year.

They're amazing!

At one time, it was a common fallacy that 'developing' countries would recapitulate the history of the industrial countries -- that they would have their own Age of Railroads, later introduce cars (together with highways, modern bridges, etc.), airplanes (and airports, all that support infrastructure, etc.), heavy industy, etc. in the same order, only maybe accelerated, that Western Europe and USA had done. It took a while for some people to realize this is not necessary, and in many ways, thoroughly undesirable, particularly as regards environmental degradation and exhaustion of non-renewable resources.

I've occasionally read some disparaging comments about poor Africans with cell phones -- as if that were some sort of exotic luxury they have no right to be indulging in -- written by people who don't realize that building a cellular infrastructure network is actually cheaper and quicker than installing landlines, particularly where the local terrain does not include modern highways and the like. A satellite downlink, exotic as that may sound, is a very efficient way to jumpstart a national communications network in areas similarly lacking other industrial infrastructure.

Maybe the best way to do something for underdeveloped countries is the best way we already do it for ourselves, hmmmm ?

(Years ago, Arthur C. Clarke wrote a short essay about this idea, but I can't remember where it was published, or even the title. )

To add to your ideas I think the younger people who already think in a different way than us older people do and who have known all the modern gadgets as an integral part of their lives will change much of the way humanity has thought in the past.

We live in a world that's only as far away as your computer now. For me, who can still remember having to go to the library for any kind of research for school projects and even college, the advent of the internet has changed everything. I find it quite marvelous. Knowledge is only as far away as your computer. Amazing!

To them it's just another day like any other.