Our largest program in Mauritania to date has been a Maternal-Child Health (MCH) program, providing food and health education to about 30,000 malnourished children and mothers. Our programs also include literacy centers, microcredit to poor rural farmers, market gardening projects, schools for poor children, vocational training for the unemployed, and occasional emergency relief projects. You can read more about Doulos Community’s work at www.douloscommunity.org.

    Biographical info: If you would like a formal biographical information sheet about me,     please click here. The two most important things to know about me are: 1) that when I     was a young man, Jesus changed my life, rescuing me from the brink of self-destruction,     and 2) that I have been profoundly changed by the experience of living in the same house     with ordinary Muslims in North Africa for 15 years. To read more about how Jesus     changed my life, click here. In our life in Mauritania, my wife and I committed ourselves
to living among the poor as the poor. We rented one room (then, after our children were born, two rooms) in a house with two local Muslim families, with no running water or electricity, and sharing an outdoor latrine with our neighbors. More than once, through the years, our wonderful Muslim neighbors saved our lives. As we shared in their daily struggles, and they shared in ours, we were deeply touched and changed. To see photos of our life and work in Mauritania, click here. To transfer to my wife’s personal website, click here.