Hey everyone. It's good to be back home with friends and family. I feel quite good and am not suffering much jet-lag except for the fact that I'm up at the crack of dawn! At least it's quiet and I can get some things done. Thanks for you the encouraging comments you left for the prayers you offered up.
Over the next few weeks, I want to share with you more details about the trip and about the lives of the people we touched. I'm more convinced than ever that all of us must do something, whatever it takes, to put out the flames in Africa. It can be done one life at a time but inaction will not help us. The question isn't "Can we do it?" but "Do we have the will to do it?" This quote from Gordon Brown, British Chancellor of the Exchequer sums it up concerning the needs of our world and specifically, reducing the needless deaths of 30,000 infants in our world every day:
"And let us be clear: It is not that the knowledge to avoid these deaths does not exist: it is not that the drugs to avoid infant deaths do not exist; it is not that the expertise does not exist; it is not that the means to achieve our goals do not exist. It is that the political will does not exist. In the 19th century you could say that it was inadequate science, technology and knowledge that prevented us from saving lives. Now, with the science, technology, and knowledge available, we must face the truth that the real barrier is indifference."
