Hmmm...haven't written in here in ages.
I have a trip journal for my week in Guatemala and Honduras visiting families helped by www.aurashouse.com.
Check it out here: http://www.aurashouse.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=200

It has been ages since I have written in here ( Read more... )

Been busy expanding my do-gooder website ( Read more... )

I got this email from my friend Neema in Tanzania this morning. I like her expression: "my frendy ( Read more... )

A student canceled a meeting with me so now I have this unknown luxury called- gasp..free time ( Read more... )

Aura's House at: http://www.aurashouse.com just launched two new projects. One is to help eleven year-old Rituparna Mandal and her village of Khordanahala in India get a much needed water well. We also are helping send kids in Zambia, Africa to school by getting them uniforms and supplies ( Read more... )

I just got this email from my English friend, Sarah- explaining the situation regarding the school fee bank accounts we set up for Mama Nelson's kids in Tanzania. I am so excited that when Sarah went back over for dinner, Mama Nelson cooked an entire vegetarian meal! Wish I could have been there ( Read more... )

This is Maria Rosa Rojas and her parents from San Pedro Sula, Honduras. They just found out that the cramped one-room shack they share with 10 family members is going to be replaced with a brand new, sturdy brick home large enough for all of them. It was a complete surprise...


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Finally some Tanzania videos are online at http://www.kristenpalana.com
Now I can get back to my "normal" life

Had a strange dream last night where I was WALKING to my University. (FYI-Nobody walks there- it's car- city...except for my friend Professor Joe VanPutten who's a mountain man but lives really close ( Read more... )