$600,000 and we Kenyans who are successful cannot do this?

[Guest guest]

Folks,

REading this just touch my heart. As a successful and a vice

president of a company in Manhattan....I am ashamed...that I have

not done enough...

Newsweek

July 3-10, 2006 issue - UNDER 25

Benita Singh and Ruth Degolia

Mercado Global

Their company will raise $600,000 this year to send Guatemalan kids

to school.

Benita Singh and Ruth DeGolia were still undergraduates in the

summer of 2003 when they found their destiny in the village of San

Alfonso, on the Pacific coast of Guatemala. Singh and DeGolia,

international-studies majors at Yale, were working on their senior

theses when they visited the village, which was filled with women

who had fled Guatemala during that country's brutal civil war in the

1980s. After two years in refugee camps in Mexico, the women, many

of them widowed by the fighting, had been repatriated here, where

there was no work and no market for the exquisite woven and beaded

handicrafts they produced. " There are only so many tourists, and

each one can only buy so much, " says DeGolia ruefully. But the women

weren't beggars; it was, says Singh, " the first time I'd ever walked

into an impoverished [Third World] community where people weren't

asking me for money. "

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[Guest guest]

Folks,

REading this just touch my heart. As a successful and a vice

president of a company in Manhattan....I am ashamed...that I have

not done enough...

Newsweek

July 3-10, 2006 issue - UNDER 25

Benita Singh and Ruth Degolia

Mercado Global

Their company will raise $600,000 this year to send Guatemalan kids

to school.

Benita Singh and Ruth DeGolia were still undergraduates in the

summer of 2003 when they found their destiny in the village of San

Alfonso, on the Pacific coast of Guatemala. Singh and DeGolia,

international-studies majors at Yale, were working on their senior

theses when they visited the village, which was filled with women

who had fled Guatemala during that country's brutal civil war in the

1980s. After two years in refugee camps in Mexico, the women, many

of them widowed by the fighting, had been repatriated here, where

there was no work and no market for the exquisite woven and beaded

handicrafts they produced. " There are only so many tourists, and

each one can only buy so much, " says DeGolia ruefully. But the women

weren't beggars; it was, says Singh, " the first time I'd ever walked

into an impoverished [Third World] community where people weren't

asking me for money. "

Story continues below «

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