Making Friends in Shanghai
Please take a look at this short video of my time with the orphans in Shanghai. They need our help! $1,000 will buy new bedding for hundreds of orphans with disabilities.

See pictures from Keith's trip on Facebook.

Read Keith's diary from Guatemala:

Report from Day One

Field Report: School for Jose

Field Report: Education and Pollo Compero in El Hato

Judith, a Mayan on a Mission

I departed December 26th for a service trip to Guatemala – part of my commitment to give more back in 2010 through volunteer work. I started regular Meals on Wheels routes in late 2009, and since then, I've been constantly reminded that the world truly looks different when we are being generous.

In Guatemala, I worked with orphans in an area so impoverished that even the children who have families don't have clean water and can't afford to go to school. In one village I visited, San Mateo, I worked with a couple who started a community center for abandoned children – they have dreams to create a computer lab but right now are just trying to help provide running water and food for 50 or 60 children whose parents can't afford to take care of them.

	$10 will provide two weeks of staple foods for Jose's family.
	$100 will buy a sack of soybeans for Carlos to produce soy milk to help feed the children.
	$300 will buy one of Carlos's students a year at a local public school, or build a communal bathroom.
	$1500 will allow another high performing student to go to a private middle school, including clothes, food, and travel, and fulfill their parents' dreams like my father's dream was for me. It can also build the kids a soccer field.
	$5,000 will buy an additional bathroom for Judith's orphanage. Currently, her orphanage is overflowing with 60 kids and only two baths.
	$30,000 will buy a water well so an entire village will have clean water forever.

• size of Tennessee
• not everyone speaks Spanish; there are 24 indigenous languages spoken
• Roman Catholicism is the dominant religion, but many have blended it with traditional Mayan rituals
• the terrain is mostly mountainous
• primary exports are coffee, bananas, and sugar
• 75 percent of the rural (mostly indigenous) population lives in extreme poverty
• only 30 percent of rural students finish 3rd grade

Please make a donation - it will go directly to children there who need it. See where your donations are going by following Keith on Twitter or Facebook between Christmas and New Years Eve 2009!