Every month Palmer College of Chiropractic does a brief eNews on what alumni are up to in the world. This month two familiar folks had their mugs posted on the cover. Yes Dr. John Cherry as well as Dr. Jay Breitlow are posted and highlighted with an update on the progress of J2S. Please click [...]
The Haitian proverb ‘Beyond Mountains there are Mountains’ is a fitting description for where we sit today with J2S. My bags are packed and I am ready to take off for Africa to when I get a message from my friend Sasha in Madagascar: ‘Civil Unrest, didn’t think it was possible until today’.
Several conversations later and many hours spent [...]
Would you help a child to walk who has never been able to walk without a crutch, a young girl with Cerebral Palsy to smile for the first time, or if you could help a woman in pain to sleep for the first time in over two weeks, would you? Miracles happen all the [...]
Charles Darwin was an English scientist from the mid-late 1800s who demonstrated that as time passes, life evolves. As species evolve we are left with the diversity of animals and plants that exist as we know it today and we can see this when we go to the zoo or walk through the woods. [...]
When we talk about breaking the cycle of poverty we have to look at breaking it for the long term. Showing up for one month at a time every now and then would be like handing a village a toothbrush and a bottle of toothpaste and saying ‘enjoy a lifetime of minty fresh [...]
When we look at the people we are serving, it is important to understand the characteristics of Poverty. The folks at Enterprise Development International do a great job on defining poverty here where they define 6 keys: 1)Material Poverty 2) Physical Weakness 3) Isolation 4) Vulnerability 5) Powerlessness 6) Spiritual Poverty.
We probably each have [...]
What can I say? I am impressed, I confess myself impressed. With each successive time the team members of Journey to Solidarity discuss the vision and the progress of J2S I am amazed at their creativity, intelligence and generosity.
I am thoroughly excited to be a part of this wonderful team. Much progress has been [...]
This post is courtesy of Nick, our newly appointed Vice President of J2S! Congratulations Nick! More on the results of our recent meeting to follow, but for now here are Nick’s thoughts on solidifying the future and the vision.
‘To enable the development of a mission statement I first asked who the customers of [...]
To quote Dave Barry “If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be “meetings”
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So when I lived in Virginia as a Nuclear Engineer I would have [...]
As I have been helping Jay get the blog going and doing my own research on Madagscar, I’ve been blown away by the beauty of this country and its people. Imagine a place where you can see both rain forests, rice fields, and African savannas, all in a small country just slightly larger than [...]
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