{"id":1021,"date":"2010-05-08T14:13:34","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T14:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=459"},"modified":"2010-05-08T14:13:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T14:13:34","slug":"living-in-a-shack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1021","title":{"rendered":"…living in a shack"},"content":{"rendered":"

We headed north out of Houston, stopping at Camp Kappe in Plantersville, Texas. \u00a0 This is a youth camp that teaches environmental awareness and empathy for the plight of those in the Third World. \u00a0 At the camp is a “global village.” \u00a0 The director is Sister Thomas Ann, a Dominican nun who started the camp in 1981. \u00a0 She has spent time in Africa, Japan, Mexico… and developed a real understanding of the plight of Third World people worldwide. \u00a0 In the last entry, I talked about a couple illegal immigrants from Guatemala, and their long trek to this country to get help for their mom who is sick. \u00a0 Sr. Thomas Ann lived in Guatemala. \u00a0 She described the poverty she saw there. \u00a0 She said it wasn’t uncommon to see 10 to 12 family members living in a shack “the size of my kitchen.” \u00a0 There was no running water, no indoor toilet, rice soup as a staple (maybe once a day) kids playing soccer in the streets with raw sewage running by… \u00a0 To raise awareness about all this, Camp Kappe has built five proto-type houses to give youth in this country a much better feel for how others live worldwide. \u00a0 The houses are replicas of what you’d see in places like Guatemala, North Africa, Indonesia… Some of the houses, for instance, have black pots over an open flame outside. \u00a0 Sr. Thomas Ann will explain to the American youth that half of the world still cooks outside. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 Sr. Thomas Ann said that the camp regularly hosts inner city kids who, for most of their lives, have been literally encased \u00a0in concrete and broken glass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We headed north out of Houston, stopping at Camp Kappe in Plantersville, Texas. \u00a0 This is a youth camp that teaches environmental awareness and empathy for the plight of those in the Third World. \u00a0 At the camp is a …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}