July 5, 2005: Headlines: COS - Morocco: Service: Portsmouth Herald News: Morocco RPCV Andy and Trudy Anderson work with The Hunger Project, which aims to end world hunger
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July 5, 2005: Headlines: COS - Morocco: Service: Portsmouth Herald News: Morocco RPCV Andy and Trudy Anderson work with The Hunger Project, which aims to end world hunger
Morocco RPCV Andy and Trudy Anderson work with The Hunger Project, which aims to end world hunger
About half of Andy’s take-home pay (approximately 35 percent of his salary) is donated to The Hunger Project or used to pay for conferences or other expenses the couple have when working with the project. In 2004, the couple donated or used around $17,000.
Morocco RPCV Andy and Trudy Anderson work with The Hunger Project, which aims to end world hunger
Kittery couple sees shipyard work as means to help end world hunger
Caption: For Trudy and Andy Anderson, of Kittery, Andy's wrok at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is about more than a job. The Andersons use roughly half of Andy's take home pay for their work with The Hunger Project, which aims to end world hunger. Photo by Jackie Riccardi Jackie Ricciardi
Editor’s note: This is one in a series of Monday profiles on shipyard workers and their loved ones and how their lives have changed since the Defense Department recommended the closure of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
By Elizabeth Kenny
ITTERY, Maine - A cool breeze flows through the Andersons’ apartment, over the soft, calm voices they use to talk about the potential of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard being closed.
For many, conversations about unemployment, job loss and the prospect of having to move their roots are unpleasant and unsettling.
Then again, for many, 81 years old should be the age of retirement and donating nearly half their salary to a nonprofit organization seems unrealistic.
But Andy and Trudy Anderson talk about Andy’s potential job loss as a metallurgical engineer at the yard as just another path on the road of life.
At 81, Andy says he is prepared to pick up and move across the country for another job if the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard closes. Andy said he doesn’t "need" to work, but he will. He wants to continue to contribute to The Hunger Project.
Project literature portrays the project as an organization that envisions a world free of hunger, which would also begin to address hundreds of other devastating problems across the globe, such as population growth, civil unrest, war and environmental destruction.
About half of Andy’s take-home pay (approximately 35 percent of his salary) is donated to The Hunger Project or used to pay for conferences or other expenses the couple have when working with the project. In 2004, the couple donated or used around $17,000.
The couple’s first choice would be to stay in the area and have Andy continue to work at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, partially because he worries about his friends and co-workers in the area.
But the two met when they were traveling, so they’re not opposed to doing it again.
"We have a flexibility of where we live, and that’s so valuable," Andy said. "It takes one variable away. I wouldn’t let location be the main thing that would determine where I work."
Andy and Trudy met in Morocco more than 18 years ago during separate Peace Corps missions. They moved to Kittery about a year ago, from Washington.
While both express extreme concern for the Seacoast and their new friends if the yard were to close, for themselves, they say they are at peace with whatever comes their way.
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