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Linda & Randy Klein: A Personal Quest for Peace

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For nearly two decades, Linda and Randy Klein, both CT Quest for Peace coordinators, have worked to build bridges in Nicaragua, seeking to improve housing, education and healthcare in the second poorest nation in the hemisphere.  During their visits, they witness the struggles of a people striving to overcome a challenging past.  With a population of over five million, an estimated forty-five percent survive on less than US$1 a day.  Makeshift homes of cardboard and tin provide shelter for many.  A lack of clean drinking water, plumbing and electricity lead to slum conditions in which malaria is common.  With one of the highest infant mortality rates in Central America, malnourished children suffer from diarrhea and acute respiratory infections, and medications are in great demand. Linda and Randy work with local clinics that strive to combat such illnesses and they alert CMMB to the needs.  Since 1999, CMMB has shipped $14 million in medical supplies to CT Quest for Peace’s affiliates, like the Reparto Schick Clinic, which provides healthcare to one of the poorest communities in Nicaragua.  Hundreds of people line up outside the clinic door day after day.  Many children are homeless.  These children are often orphans who gather together in makeshift homes in the local dump.  Linda and Randy have befriended many of these street children over the years, and CT Quest for Peace works to support schools for these children.  The collaborative efforts between this couple and CMMB have led to a powerful change for good in Nicaragua.

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