Hello again! I am picking up the "pen" to continue the story here at Peregrine Days. Since the last post, I have continued working as a guide in the Antarctic, the Arctic and Greenland with One Ocean Expeditions. I am now preparing to go back down to Ushuaia for my third season. I have also been busy marrying (twice) my favorite traveling companion, Christian! And thanks to him, I now live in the beautiful city of Vancouver. For our official honeymoon and celebration of our first anniversary, we are taking ourselves off to explore Vietnam in January 2011. Amidst all the excitement of researching and anticipation, we have one very special project we hope you'll share with us.
Through GoPhilanthropic and Global Village Foundation, we are donating a portable library and delivering it to school children in a rural village. We are so fortunate in North America to have libraries available to us in every neighborhood. The bookmobile was one of my favorite destinations as a child and we continue to use our local library regularly. If you love books like we do, please help us give more books to more children! Each portable library costs $500 and is stocked with 250 books (half in Vietnamese and half in English) which will be shared among villages. Please join us today with a donation of any amount, large or small (100% of the donation goes towards the library). Our goal is to raise $1000.
The Global Village Foundation was established in 1999 by Le Ly Hayslip, a Vietnamese-American who grew up in a poor village in central Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Her life story has been the inspiration for several internationally published articles, books and films. She is the author of two autobiographical bestsellers, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places and Child of War, Woman of Peace, which were adapted into the 1994 film Heaven and Earth, directed by Oliver Stone and released by Warner Bros. GVF funds and provides construction for kindergartens, primary schools, and cultural and vocational training centers. See the following websites for more information about these excellent organizations.
Thank you for your support!
