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Bolivia in 100 words

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World Vision bloggers in Bolivia. ©2011 Matthew Paul Turner for World Vision
Before you read this, let me just say that 100 words does not do this post justice. Just 100 words will barely begin to describe the beauty of Bolivia and the warmth of its people. Just 100 words isn’t enough. But please, please take these 100 words to heart. Understand they represent a fraction of a deeper story we’re desperate to tell — a story about survival and faith, sacrifice and family, difference and commonality. I hope these 100 words paint for you a picture as vivid as the memories in our minds, and as resilient as the love in our hearts. This list was created out of the words from and expressions of the families and individuals we met,...
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The ‘salt’ in a modern-day Jericho

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The 'salt' in a modern-day Jericho | World Vision Blog
For five days, we listened as the women of the Congo shared with us the unspeakable horrors they had experienced — personal stories of abduction, rape, and mayhem at the hands of men who use violence against women as a weapon of war. But harder still for me to hear were their accounts of a second round of abuse at the hands of those from whom they should have expected comfort and compassion — parents who rejected their own daughters after they had been impregnated in violent attacks by local militias; in-laws who laid claim to land and possessions from widows forced to watch as their husbands were killed in front of them. More than a decade of fear and...
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Interns with a [world] vision

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Interns with a vision | World Vision blog
As we get ready to send off our amazing summer interns — some back to school, some onto start their careers, but all to wherever God leads them — we want to say THANK YOU for the help you’ve given us this summer, and the impact you’ve had on the lives of children around the world. As our president Rich Stearns has said so many times this summer, “You are world-changers and we only wish we could hire every one of you.” Special thanks to Chris Clouzet, World Vision intern with the web content team, who compiled and edited this edition of “what working at World Vision means to me”… but with a twist — what interning at World Vision...
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[Bolivia bloggers] A dozen unforgettable moments

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A dozen unforgettable moments. ©2011 Matthew Paul Turner for World Vision
I saw this tweet from Rachel Held Evans yesterday morning: “Been back from Bolivia for a week now, and I’m just now unpacking. Anyone else out there an unpacker-slacker?” I’m the worst kind of unpacker… I let the task of unpacking intimidate me in a really silly way. I also think there’s something sort of nostalgic about an unpacked suitcase — it brings back memories of where you’ve just returned from. In this case, it brings back bittersweet memories of the seven days I spent in Bolivia with some of the most insightful and endearing people I’ll ever know — Elizabeth, Andrea, Joy, Nish, Matthew, Carla, Rachel, Amy, Michael, Jana and Deb — and all of the moments we experienced...
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[Bolivia bloggers] Back at home, but haunted by their faces

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Haunted by their faces | World Vision Blog
The following post was written on Day 1, back at home from Bolivia, from Elizabeth Esther. I did 26 hours of travel on two hours of sleep. I don’t recommend this. My body and mind feel sundered–torn apart. This afternoon I started shaking. I’m so tired–physically, emotionally, mentally–that my body started freaking out on me without sending a warning note first. And Mariela’s face haunts my emotions: I met Mariela at the special-needs center in Colomi. Her uncle, in the words of Mariela’s mother, “es muy malo.” Very bad–meaning, his special needs are severe, overwhelming for a family already entrenched in deep poverty. Mariela wouldn’t let go of me. She held my hand, asked me to draw pictures for her,...
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