I have a dream!I want to help build houses in El Salvador. This is part of a worldwide "Living Stones" effort. Each house costs $7,000 and is a permanent, well-built seven-room house. Half of that amount is forgiven, but each family must obtain a $3,500 mortgage. This is beyond these families, driven from their earthquake demolished homes in 2001. Three earthquakes, the largest being 7.6 on the Richter scale leveled the countryside for a million people — out of a six-million population.Individuals can help the government, and other outside aid there, complete the project. The hope is that people from North America will be generous in sending dollars and cents to help a family obtain a mortgage. No donation is too small. Each house has a living room, a kitchen, a bathroom and three bedrooms. It is sturdily built to withstand storms, even earthquakes, it is hoped. The village is located close to a modern city where jobs are available. Schools, hospitals and churches are also built to provide for the whole culture. If anyone wants to help me send dollars and cents to El Salvador for this "Living Stones" project, contact me and I will come and get their donation, however small or large it may be. I will have a jar at the Luverne Senior Dining Center. Just drop your donation in the BIG JAR marked "Living Stones."Thank you very much.This is an opportunity to help others where we have no self-interest involved. That sounds like a Spirit of the Season gift opportunity to me.Help me live my dream.Jeanette TangemanLuverne
