Just Focus

Archive for July, 2005

What Are We Prepared to Give Up in the Name of Global Justice?

By Geoff Cooper, Auckland
We are often quick to assume that Global Injustice is a problem that is in no way connected to us and our lifestyles. Are we prepared to accept that it is our glamour and our luxury that is a by-product of the very problems that we aim to eliminate?

A Youth Response to Globalisation

By Andrew Colgan, Auckland
Reflections on the Council for World Mission (CWM) Global Youth Convention (GYC), Johannesburg, South Africa, June 2004

Playing Mum

Mariana Gledhill from Wellington, N.Z spent 7 months, in 2005, in Peru doing voluntary work. She shares her experiences.
Buenos Dias. Well I am writing this mail about mothers´day here. And my job, which more or less seems to be about playing mum to 60+ kids. A lot of work.

Starting the project and mourning the Pope

Mariana Gledhill from Wellington, N.Z spent 7 months, in 2005, in Peru doing voluntary work. She shares her experiences.
Chincha continues to be enjoyable. have had an adventurous week: been bitten by a dog (not rabid, My host dad is a vet), been put on a diet by a doctor, and tomorrow I am off to the beach with the project I am working on.

Visiting the Jungle

Mariana Gledhill from Wellington, N.Z spent 7 months, in 2005, in Peru doing voluntary work. She shares her experiences.
I have finally been to another zone of Peru (Peru has 3 zones, coast, mountain and jungle). The jungle was great… it´s not rainforest. It could have been once, but I don’t know. The area I went to is used for growing coffee (really good coffee) and bananas.

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