Eruptions and Disruptions

Sukarto smiles widely with his remaining good teeth and motions for us to enter his home.  It’s a small and simple structure, hunkered down in the ash-enriched soil of Mt. Bromo.   His wife Sukarni also gives our team a warm welcome and quickly disappears to make refreshments for her guests.   Even as we start …

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Relief and Redemption

Eight-year-old Dika twists around in his wheel chair, trying to hold his head up enough to get a good look at us.  He smiles.   By the look of the bumpy roads our team traveled to get to his house, I don’t think his wheelchair ever leaves the front porch.  He pretty much stays put …

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