Daddi and Mommi's adventoowe in the wilds of NewYewsey

Mommi and Daddi got home late last night and told me all sowts of gweat sowies fwom theiw long long day ..I think they bof got big colds, but said it was all wowf it.

Daddi and his fellow Peace Cowe  Volunteews  at the Plaque dedication   they attended at Wutgews in NewJewsey, whewe they twained 50 yeaws ago to go off to  the unknown

I think they must have been incwedibly bwave( much like us  doggies)..they had to go to a new place whewe evewyone spoke a diffewent language and all alone  twy to leawn how to help hoomans faw fwom them

(btw, my Daddi speaks bootiful Spanish to this day and he, and all of them said, they leawned mowe fwom the hoomans they went to help than the othew way awound.  The Colombians wewe kind and hospitable  and shawed theiw lives wif them)

I have a smilebox wif a bunch of pictoowes fwom theiw day, I hope you enjoy it

Picture collage made with Smilebox

They wewe vewy young and idealistic  50 yeaws ago, and fwom what I heaw, they haven't changed much on the inside.
(if you missed the News on NBC, you can see it hewe)

George is shaking hands with Alberto Lleras Camargo, President of Colombia at the Bogota in-country training site at Tibaitata. 

these awe some of the old pictoowes fwom that time

 Daddi was explaining to me that

Colombia 1 was a Wuwal Community Development Gwoup that wowked with a jointly administewed CAWE-Peace Cowe.  The Volunteews wewe paiwed up (Daddi  wif  Tom Mullins) and assigned to wuwal sites to wowk alongside a govewnment Community Action Pwogram called Accion Comunal and the National Association of Cafetewos, the majow coffee gwowews association of Colombia (know Juan Valdez?). Tom left after six months to go to another site and Daddi stayed  alone with  the locals to help him.

Community Development was fowming local committees to owganize self-help pwojects that benefitted the community and wanged from building woads, bwidges, schools, spowts fields, latwines, water supplies and health centews.

Daddi and his companiewo from Accion Comunal built a new bwidge into town and built a health center with bwicks that the community made.  Evewyone called Daddi "Don Jorge"

 

(Daddi wif his Colombian countewpawt Faustino Twujillo Mowwales in a photogwaph taken at his site in Fuquene Colombia ....  pictoowe is fwom the awticle in the Satuwday Evening Post)

The awticle: PROFILE OF A PEACECORPSMAN

 HOW A YOUNG AMERICAN HELPS THE RESIDENTS OF A  POOR , REMOTE COLOMBIAN VILLAGE HELP THEMSELVES

Thewe awe lots of stowies funny , and some sad, but mommi says  she wouldn't know whewe to stawt

Mommi and Daddi awe totally exhausted, I, ummm, stayed home and slept like an angel and didn't go watewskiing in the Hudson Wivew wif my pals and didn't come home dwipping watew all ovew the apawtment  to dwink hot cawob wif schlag  in theiw company

Wight now, I'm "Cawbo loading"..I heawd we all have to eat lots of sghetti the night befowe the newyawk Mawathon

(I'm wishing all the wunnews the most wondewful day)

smoochie kisses