My twins are five years old. Atticus was doing something that Adrienne didn't want him to do. Here is the dialog:
Adrienne: "Stop Atticus!"
Atticus: "Why?"
Adrienne: "Because you are evil."
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
How lucky we are
Do you know how lucky you are to live in a place where you normally take your own personal safety for granted?
I have a good friend who is also the general manager in my business' factory in Honduras. His wife was killed in a commuter plane crash outside Tegucigalpa Honduras on February 14, 2011. Now he is living with his two daughters age 13 and 17, his sister and a maid in San Pedro Sula Honduras. I am on a business trip to Honduras that has been going pretty normally.
We normally work all day at the factory and then go out to dinner after work. My friend drops me off at the hotel and goes home for the night. Last night when he got home he found out that his maid had just been brutally raped by a security guard who works at the condo complex where my friend lives.
Now my friend is really fearful for his daughter's and sister's safety and rightfully so.
Before his wife was killed in that tragic accident, she had been receiving death threats trying to extort money from her. Honduras has become such a violent country. I have heard that it has the highest murder rate of any country in the western hemisphere. This is such a shame for such a beautiful country with loads of natural resources. Corruption rules the land here and helps to keep people in the cycle of poverty and hopelessness.
I just feel really bad for my friend who lives here and is raising his daughters here. I get to go home to my safe home and wonderful family and he along with 8 million other people in Honduras have to continually worry about their safety.
There has to be a better way.
I have a good friend who is also the general manager in my business' factory in Honduras. His wife was killed in a commuter plane crash outside Tegucigalpa Honduras on February 14, 2011. Now he is living with his two daughters age 13 and 17, his sister and a maid in San Pedro Sula Honduras. I am on a business trip to Honduras that has been going pretty normally.
We normally work all day at the factory and then go out to dinner after work. My friend drops me off at the hotel and goes home for the night. Last night when he got home he found out that his maid had just been brutally raped by a security guard who works at the condo complex where my friend lives.
Now my friend is really fearful for his daughter's and sister's safety and rightfully so.
Before his wife was killed in that tragic accident, she had been receiving death threats trying to extort money from her. Honduras has become such a violent country. I have heard that it has the highest murder rate of any country in the western hemisphere. This is such a shame for such a beautiful country with loads of natural resources. Corruption rules the land here and helps to keep people in the cycle of poverty and hopelessness.
I just feel really bad for my friend who lives here and is raising his daughters here. I get to go home to my safe home and wonderful family and he along with 8 million other people in Honduras have to continually worry about their safety.
There has to be a better way.
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