It's been a few years since I wrote occasionally for the
Ithaca Times. Recently I had a chance to interview some inspiring women
and wrote a couple articles for the Tompkins County Weekly.
At first, as Chris Pothier was planning a follow-up trip to
Bolivia, she thought she had hit on an ideal way to improve her Spanish. On
previous visits she had been reading Spanish books to the children and saw how
insatiable they were for books, so she borrowed books to read to them. As might
be expected of someone who was director of the Loaves and Fishes food program
for 24 years (she retired in 2010), Pothier noticed the expansive needs of the
people around her in Bolivia. She had also been volunteering at an orphanage in
Cochabamba, where there were no books available.
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