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Timothy W. Bilodeau

Timothy W. Bilodeau

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

As a volunteer working to improve medical conditions in Ecuador, Timothy Bilodeau stood by a mother whose 3-year-old child had just died for lack of 25 cents worth of medicine. The impoverished woman, in agony, had been forced to choose between buying food or medicine...
Jock Brandis

Jock Brandis

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

On a trip to West Africa to help a friend fix a solar-powered drinking water system, Joost (Jock) Brandis came across an even bigger need: a simple, cost-effective peanut sheller to help poor women prepare tough ground nuts for sale. It seemed simple, and Brandis...

Shirley Caldwell-Patterson

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

In 1997, at age 79, Shirley Caldwell-Patterson attended a presentation by Victor Scoggins who showed a film of his swim down the Cumberland River in Tennessee and Kentucky. A long-time conservationist, Patterson was appalled at the condition of the Cumberland River...
Susan Burton

Susan Burton

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

At 46 years old, Susan Burton didn’t have a lot going for her. It was 1997. She was fresh out of jail, and not for the first time. On her way out the prison guard said, “I’ll see you back in a little while.” It wasn’t unlikely. Years before, Burton’s 5-year-old son...
Steven Kwon

Steven Kwon

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

A retired corporate nutrition scientist and holder of several food-product patents, Steven Soon-Young Kwon was invited to Afghanistan’s Kabul University in 2003 to give a presentation. Appalled at the widespread malnutrition-related illnesses he saw there and...