Introducing Jillian…A World Concern Profile

I’m not sure how I let this one slip by the radar screens here at On the Goat Path.  For those of you who may not know, Jillian is my fantastic wife, and when she’s not busy dealing with the emotional roller-coaster that is me, she spends 10+ hours a day working at World Concern.  [...]

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An Uncertain Future – A Quick Recovery Update

It’s been over four months since the earthquake, and the clean-up continues.  While many of the main roads have been cleared for months, in the tightly packed Port-au-Prince neighborhoods that these roads don’t reach, rubble still fills the streets.  And that’s where the Cash for Work programs come in.  Local Haitians are hired to do [...]

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ROAR!!!

We went on another World Concern site visit today with Jillian and her mom, Karen, who is in town for the week!  But another day in the communities means another group of adorable children, and this boy in particular made it a point to try and scare us.  The entire time he followed our group [...]

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Three Men

I started volunteering for World Concern last week to help Jillian out with the countless amounts of things she has to do every day.  Because Jillian is the “Program Support Manager” for the emergency program, I have deemed myself “Support to the Program Support Manager”…and it’s a hard job.  One of the tasks that I [...]

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