"An advocate for children exports to Guatemala; Founds program to feed the poor" by James F. Smith, Globe Staff | May 5, 2010
All she saw were hungry children....
This year, the new nonprofit that Margaret Blood, 52, of Jamaica Plain, a longtime early-education crusader whose Boston-based nonprofit, Strategies for Children keeps her in compulsive work mode throughout the year, created is feeding more than 500 elementary school children in Guatemala every day, with meals cooked by volunteer mothers. The program has expanded to four schools, and nine more are clamoring to join as soon as funds permit....
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She is trying to make a difference in a hungry country of 13 million people that is ignored by many Americans....
Hey, don't see it in the papers much.
I don't want to knock it too much; however, I am tired of the feel-good stories when the policies the paper supports have led to the situation (and the 200,000 or so dead at the hands of CIA slaughter is again unmentioned).
Related: Globe Celebrates Guatemalan Illegals
Guatemalan Can't Escape the Long Arm of AmeriKan Law
Hitching a Ride With Homeland Security
Yeah, that is about three months worth of coverage.
