Posted by
Billy on Thursday, March 31, 2011 12:30:32 PM
During the summer, she helped hundreds of campers assemble thousands of health kits for Haitians struggling after the January 2010 earthquake.
Then last month, the charitable work came full circle when she traveled to Haiti to see some of those kits delivered to students about the same age as her campers as well as to their parents.
The five-day trip will have a lasting effect on her life, said Lisa Hettinger, 21 and a student at Midland University in Fremont, Neb. She said it has enlarged her view of what a community is and given her a deeper appreciation of human relationships.
“It was incredibly meaningful,” she said. “I couldn't have learned these things from the news. I had to learn them in person. They told me their stories, and their willingness to talk was an expression of love.”
The simple health kits made by campers attending Lutheran Outdoor Ministries programs in Nebraska and Kansas have taken on lifesaving importance in the devastated country, now beset by a cholera outbreak. Cholera is a potentially fatal intestinal disease that can easily spread without careful attention to hygiene
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In summer 2010, children who attended Lutheran summer camps in Ashland, Neb., Lodgepole, Neb., and Junction City, Kan., assembled 32,000 health kits for victims of disasters.