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Heifer International 
Study Tour for Educators, July 2007

I just returned from an Educator Study Tour to Honduras with Heifer International.  It was an amazing and life-changing experience.  What's Cooking will take to heart some of the lessons learned about community development and sustainable agriculture.  We will be offering more classes that bring families together and use food for service within our community.

Michelle Stern and her children appeared on View From the Bay in August, 2007 to discuss her Study Tour for Educators and how she will be using her cooking classes to inspire her students to do community service through food.

For more information about Heifer International, please visit the following web pages:
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Some Perspective...

Once a rich father took his child on a journey to the countryside with the firm intent that the child see how poor certain people were and understand the value of things and how fortunate their family was.  They spent a day and a night in the farmhouse of a very humble peasant family.

Upon concluding the trip, on the way home, the father asked the child, "What did you think of the trip?"

"Very pretty, Dad!"

"Did you see how poor and needy people can be?"

"Yes."

"And what did you learn?"

"I saw that we have a dog at home, they have four.  We have a twenty-meter pool; they have a creek without end.  We have imported lamps in the patio; they have the stars.  Our patio goes to the wall of the house; theirs goes to the horizon.  Especially, Dad, I saw that they have time to converse and to live in family.  You and mom have to work all of the time and I almost never see you."

The father remained speechless and the child added, "Thank you, Dad,for showing me how rich we could someday be."

REFLECTION ON THE STORY: Solidarity can be imagined as a shared walk, accompanying another in reaching a difficult destination.  For the non-poor, a relationship of mutuality, receptivity, and common cause with people who live in poverty can require a complete change in perspective.  Reflect on the question "Where do I come from and where am I going?" in your call to solidarity with the poor.