3 of our long time employees are refugees from Burma that we met through Jubilee Partners.  Their tribe has endured traumas I can’t imagine and though they carry the scars, they inspire us by continuing to laugh and sing as they go about their days here.  We’ve watched as they’ve adjusted from a subsistence lifestyle deep in the jungle, where even cooking with oil required you to grow peanuts and press them for oil to cook with, to a world where unidentifiable food products come wrapped in brightly colored plastics and can be purchased at a corner store and relatives 5,000 miles away can be visited virtually through smartphones.  The transition is so massive, It must be like being dropped on an alien planet.  We’ve seen their children grow up, work at the local diner, and go off to college.  We’ve shared meals and stories, birthdays and graduations, and toiled in the heat and rain with them.  They are a huge part of our farm and our community and we are better for it.

   Sadly, a car accident on the way home from work took the lives of 3 young men (one of them a new father) in their community.  Naw Dee Poe’s son lost his 2 best friends.  She says the’ve been inseparable for the last 10 years and would come to her house after work every day and she’d cook for them.  They all just graduated together last week. He is devastated.  They all are.  They came to this country with only the shirts on their backs.  They were working hard and struggling to get a foot hold at an increasingly expensive time to be alive in this world.  From what I understand, none of them had insurance and the families are struggling to pay the hospital and funeral bills.  If you have anything to spare to help out these families, we invite you to consider it and you can do so by clicking here.

   The stated goal is humble and I think they’ll need a lot more.  This GoFundMe is actually tax deductible if that helps.  Thank you so much for considering.