This is Cindy and Blair Packard, founders of the www.careforlife.org. They work in villages in Africa to stablize families, improve living conditions, and educate and empower the villagers to earn a living. They not only deal with all of the ravages of poverty but they also deal with the challenges of aids and maleria. They have dramatically increased hope. Here are some of their stats: reduced local infant mortality from 138/1000 to 64/1000, families drinking safe water from 15% to 99%, families who live in improved housing increased from 45% to 95%, people sleeping under mosquito nets increased from 46% to 97%, families using latrines increased from 46% to 97%, households with pest infestation decreased from 79%n to 5%, small family businesses increased from 15% to 36%, children attending school increased from 28% to 48%, people tested for HIV/AIDS increased from .9% to 30%. These are some of the 30 areas that are regularly evaluated. 1 in 9 mothers die from complications of childbirth, since the inception of FPP no women participating has died as a result of complications of pregnancy. Life expectancy in Mozambique is 39 years, 54% of Mozambicans live below the world poverty level. 26.5% HIV rates exist in Beira Corridor (their area of focus). This is just an average couple with an idea. They pay for all of their own airlines tickets and any of their own expenses. Nothing that is donated to them goes to wages or to travel. I am very impressed with them and what they have done.