Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Milestone

It was January 2001 that I went to the refugee camps in North Sulawesi near the city of Manado. IFC was born to help the poor in these camps. It was an overwhelming challenge with 53,000 refugees in the area. This began a journey of IFC where we worked in food, clean water and medical programs.

These were the early days and now it has been ten years. We have reached a milestone--one decade. It hardly seems possible that 10 years has passed. I can look back and see many challenges and also breakthroughs.

It is the amazing people who have joined us in this work. I have only thanks to the hundreds of people who have volunteered to go to the refugee camps and our medical base. These are the salt of the earth--the best of mankind. I am thankful to work along side these amazing people.