BonaResponds

Listen to Jim's interview with Natalie. What is aquaponics? Why is BonaResponds talking about it? How is it related to STEM? How is it going to be used in the Olean area? In Haiti? In the classroom? Come find out this weekend!

Here is a video Natalie made describing the program: https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=4s&v=w1HA16JRnw4

We discuss the BonaResponds trip to Dickinson Texas where over 50 volunteers helped the area recover from Hurricane Harvey.

A rather short update on the trip to Dickinson Texas over spring break where we will be doing disaster recovery work out of the Mount Olive Baptist Church.

Here are the drywall (sheet rock) videos I mentioned; https://www.evernote.com/shard/s244/sh/77c501cc-9529-4dbf-926b-79184bf8b1d5/9fec3da9cb7e0412bb58972502b4ee44

Bob Hammond and Bill McGrath are two of my favorite people anywhere. They have volunteered with us many times (and we have eaten and stayed at their homes many more times, they are simply wonderful. And they are from Texas now. And they are coming with us to help in Dickinson. They both talk with Jim about the trip and why you should come with us!

Adam and Jim give a fast update on trip planning and ask for volunteers to drive vans down before Feb 23 and return After March 3.

Otherwise, the plan is to fly in to Houston (Hobby if possible) and then get to work! (we will pick you up and house you and feed you).

Sign up for more info at https://BonaResponds.org

Wow, if I didn't know better I would like Pastor Amos had read every blog post of ours since we started in New Orleans. It is very rare we run into someone with the same outlook and goals.

We really, really hope we can get the living quarters behing the church set up and use it as a base for our trip.

Thanks Reed and Adam for joining in! This has made the scouting trip worthwhile!!

A fascinating interview! Adam and Jim talk with Onel Dossou on the Haitian Economy, Haitian Schools, as well as his tree nursery.

The podcast ends with an update on Hurricane Relief efforts and the need for a new vehicle for BonaResponds.

In 2014 we began working with Bishop Nelson's CYC Africa group. It was during the Ebola crisis. His team was saving children as well as feeding the hundreds and teaching the community how to not catch the horrible disease.

CYC (with the sponsorship of BonaResponds and PositiveRipples) has been educating the children since. We now have 53 children that we would like to sponsor for $150 a year. WITH YOUR HELP, WE CAN!

Bishop Nelson was in the USA so we had him stop in for 10 days. Here is a talk with him that you don't want to miss.

Takeaways: Liberia is poor, never give up on people (Nelson had been a gang leader as a child living on the streets of Monrovia), Ebola is an awful disease, you can't just leave orphans once the news media leaves, YOU CAN HELP!

To donate:

1. Donate money at PositiveRipples.org

2. Donate school supplies in the Atrium of the Swan Business Building.

3. Sign up for our Pen Pal program. https://goo.gl/forms/3sQDsUc6CBLYRRuo2