I had just spent two days on an airplane when Samson and Birori met us in Kamembe, Rwanda, so I wasn’t in a very chatty mood. However, about 30 minutes into the 3-hour drive, I began to realize that the story Samson was telling was extraordinary.

It seems like only yesterday that Eldon Garcia and I drove from Santo Domingo to Port au Prince, then up into the mountains of Haiti for the first time. We got hopelessly lost…

In the Dominican Republic I bade farewell to two of our longest serving employees, and welcomed another to a position of leadership.

“With VSLA, I have become a new woman…”

While driving from Moshi to Sanya Juu, Pastor Mosha, our Tanzanian board chairman briefed me on the event. “We expect 7000 people to be there.”

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Although many people confuse the two, Hurricane Matthew has reminded us that there are huge differences between relief and development. We ordinarily do not engage in relief work…

On Monday, four teams of ten people each began work on the road from St. Etienne to Cherident.

I have time for just a quick update today. We still have no reports of fatalities in the communities where Plant With Purpose has been working, which is a blessing. However…

Hurricane Matthew made landfall at 7 AM this morning, as a Category 4 just west of Les Cayes.