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Volunteers and children at the ‘Casa Juan Diaz’ care home in Mexico have been working hard to complete a large-scale map of the world.

Each year Projects Abroad sends an increasing number of volunteers to a variety of overseas destinations to offer their help working on a broad range of projects. Our volunteers are not just from the UK, but are from all over the world; in Mexico there are currently volunteers from Germany, Holland, Sweden, America and even Australia.

When Karin Gaebel and Florence Haeneke, both from Germany, arrived in Mexico to work on a Care & Community project they wanted to ensure that the time they spent with the children was to be educational as well as enjoyable. They told us:

“We spent a lot of time thinking about the activities we could do in which children of a variety of ages could participate and that everyone would benefit from… Ever since we arrived the children have always been asking us, ‘where are you from?’ When I showed them Germany on a map of the world it looked incredibly small, especially in comparison to Mexico. Many of the children thought that Germany was a state and not a country, because of how tiny it was.”

Realising that the children had very little knowledge of the world helped to inspire Karin and Florence to come up with the perfect activity:

“We decided that creating a large-scale map of the world would enable the children to see where volunteers are from and every volunteer who works at the orphanage would be able to put a mark on the map as to where they are from. We also thought that this was a great way to brighten up the orphanage, as the walls are very dull and we felt we needed to inject a bit of life into the place.”

After three weeks of dedicated work, the map is now finally complete and is hanging proudly on the wall. However, the work doesn’t stop there, as they are now planning to create a large map of Mexico to be placed by its side.

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How will this mother pay for her children's health care?
Father of 4 children, doing pretty well for himself, making over $70,000 per year abandons homemaker wife and 4 children 10, 8, 5 and 3 years old. She has been a homemaker all throughout the marriage.
She has gets a job at making $15,000 per year but does not get health insurance from employer and really cannot afford to buy insurance on her own.

Meanwhile her husband has disappeared and is paying no child support.

When the 4 children get sick, and when the mother gets sick, or if they want to have preventative routine healthcare and dental care, how will they get medical care….in your vision of how american health care.

Before you answer, please take into consideration that the 5 people in question, the mom and the 4 children did nothing wrong, and are actually victims, just like many other americans have not necessarily done anything wrong when their employers lay them off or other calamities occur.
Please please please, if you believe our current system is adequate for dealing with this situation, please be very specific how it would be dealth with..especially the part about routine doctors visits and dentist visits and preventative care.
I am not getting specificity on how they would get health care. People seem to be avoiding going into detail..why I dont know.

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