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 Real estate agents Leigh Buchan and Diane Ellis were having a beer one night and discussing the speaker they’d heard that day. He had asked them to consider the 100 things they wanted to do before they die. Ellis mentioned she wanted to go to Tibet or Africa; Buchan, who has a background in church mission work, concurred, and by the end of the evening the two ambitious women had a trip to a Tibetan village all planned.
Wanting to do more than just visit, they contacted a man Buchan knows who does development work in a remote area there and asked if there was a project that needed to be done . . . More
What a great auction! We were able to raise a lot of support for the programs in Rwanda, Burundi, Costa Rica and Peru, that help to empower the local people in dire need of support. This party with a purpose was a huge success owing much to our attendee’s who came to give generously to our vision and our mission. We are so grateful for our many volunteers who gave selflessly hours and hours of their time on our behalf.
Trip re-cap Rwanda/Burundi
Nov trip 2008
There are other parts of the world that experience life as we in the Americas could never imagine. One of those places is Africa, where Go the Second Mile (Global Support) took a reconnaissance trip to Rwanda and Burundi. Our eyes were opened exponentially to this segment of the African [more...]
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