The ambulance service will be a memorial to Willie C. James and Michael J. Quaid, who generously gave their skills, enthusiasm and love as agricultural extension volunteers in a farming area of northern Karnataka (Mysore) State in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Mike was killed tragically while continuing his Peace Corps work as a trainer in Malaysia during the late 1970s. Willie, following his Peace Corps service, was a youth and corrections counselor in Guelph, Ontario, where he lived and raised a beautiful family with his wife Kathy. (They met in India while she was in the Canadian Volunteer Service.) Willie died suddenly from cancer on January 15, 2007. In the attached photo of the India 60 group, Mike is in the front row, second from the right, and Willie in the second row, second from the right.
India 60 to create an ambulance service in rural, southern India as memorial to Willie C. James and Michael J. Quaid
Ever think you'd be starting an ambulance service in rural, southern India?
Here's your chance!
Please send this email to others who may be interested. Thanks!
Together, we have an opportunity to create an ambulance service where none now exists AND to honor two Peace Corps Volunteers who worked in this area of India.
The ambulance service will be a memorial to Willie C. James and Michael J. Quaid, who generously gave their skills, enthusiasm and love as agricultural extension volunteers in a farming area of northern Karnataka (Mysore) State in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Mike was killed tragically while continuing his Peace Corps work as a trainer in Malaysia during the late 1970s. Willie, following his Peace Corps service, was a youth and corrections counselor in Guelph, Ontario, where he lived and raised a beautiful family with his wife Kathy. (They met in India while she was in the Canadian Volunteer Service.) Willie died suddenly from cancer on January 15, 2007. In the attached photo of the India 60 group, Mike is in the front row, second from the right, and Willie in the second row, second from the right.
Willie and Mike were both so full of life and energy that Peace Corps colleagues, family, and friends have come together to find a way to celebrate their lives and to memorialize the work they did and what they symbolized to the villagers with whom they worked in India. The attached plan was put together by India 60 volunteers, working closely with Joe Emerson (an earlier Peace Corps volunteer in that area), and through his organization, the Ecological Development Foundation, Inc. and its sister organization in India, the Sanjeevini Trust (http://www.sanjeevinitrust.org/).
The Willie C. James and Michael J Quaid Memorial Fund to Provide Ambulance Service to Sirwar and the Surrounding Villages of Raichur District, State of Karnataka, India
will provide much needed emergency services—services that we often take for granted. Transportation to receive emergency medical care cannot be taken for granted in many parts of rural Indian; often it is simply not available. We urge you to open the attachment and read just how critical such services are. We ask for your help in raising $10,000 by January 15, 2008, so that people in the Sirwar area of Raichur District will have an ambulance and the support necessary to provide emergency medical transportation during the first year of operations. Dozens of villages and thousands of people will benefit.
Can you help? Definitely!
Since this appeal is going to a relatively small number of people, we hope that all who are capable will consider a donation, and we ask that you dig deep so that we can get things moving in India by the end of this year. More complete information about donating is included in the proposal, but in brief, all donations are tax deductible and will be acknowledged with a receipt. Checks should contain the notation “ambulance fund” and made out and mailed to:
Ecological Development Foundation, Inc.
PO Box 94
Bedford, NH 03221
Together, WE can make this happen!
Prepared on behalf of India 60 volunteers: Joe Adelsburg, Billy Danielson, Tony Ganey, Monroe Gilmour, Tom Holmes, John Kelly, Ken Kerkhoff, Charlie Lenth, David Mamulski, Merle Menegay, Richard Wines, and their families.
For more information contact:
Charlie Lenth
270 Canon View Rd.
Boulder, CO 80302
303-440-7379
sujibar@idcomm.com
Monroe Gilmour
PO Box 1341
Black Mt., NC 28711
828-669-6677
mgilmour@main.nc.us
Joe Emerson, EDF, Inc
PO Box 94
Bradford, NH 03221
603-938-5840
josephemer@yahoo.com
