September 8, 2003
South Koreans Offer ‘Rice of Peace’
Fifty years after the end of the Korean War, relations between the two nations occupying the Korean peninsula remain brittle. As a step toward reconciliation—and ending the chronic food shortage in the north—a coalition of South Korean citizen groups and corporations recently sent the first of three large shipments of rice to their hungry North Korean neighbors. Dubbed “Rice of Peace,” the shipments are expected to feed a total of 20,000 North Korean children for three months. Read more...
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    A week after its first attempt to deliver relief supplies to strife-torn Liberia ended in stormy seas off Sierra Leone, World Vision tried again—this time by air. Read more...
    		Shipwreck Survivor Recalls Ordeal
    Dead men tell no tales—live men tell good ones. Such was the case of a man who survived the sinking of the Madame Monique, the ship chartered by World Vision to carry emergency relief supplies to displaced Liberians. In an interview with World Vision’s Kevin Cook on Aug. 18, just hours after the ordeal, the man recounted how the 50-year-old vessel was battered in the stormy Atlantic, a few miles off the coast of Sierra Leone. Read more...
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    Ready, set …they’re off! World Vision’s annual bicycle relay—officially, the Southern Africa AIDS Cycle Relay—got off to a fast start Aug. 18 in Chipata, Zambia. Along the 1,800-mile route, cyclists crossed borders into the nations of Malawi and Mozambique. Typically, border towns serve as meeting points for long-distance truck drivers and commercial sex workers. "It's very important that the relay goes through these border towns, as they are points at which HIV/AIDS is imported and exported in the region," said Alfred Chirwa, World Vision’s cycle-relay coordinator. Read more...
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