{"id":4665,"date":"2009-05-11T21:25:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T04:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/?p=4665"},"modified":"2010-01-06T21:17:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T04:17:36","slug":"april-just-posts-for-a-just-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/11\/april-just-posts-for-a-just-world\/","title":{"rendered":"April Just Posts for a Just World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kate has been dealing with diarrhea for almost two weeks. It’s been a pain. She has an incident at school and is home for a day and nothing happens, then she goes back and the whole thing happens again… with an occasional blow out at home that results in floor, clothes, and bed washings. I’ve been able to take her to the doctor for tests, give her fluids, and not for a moment worry about any of it. The inconvenience of it all was in the back of my mind when I read Robin’s post for assistance. My friend, Robin (whom you may remember from her amazing Mama-multitasking<\/a>) lives and works in Bangladesh. She works for ICDDR, B and recently posted a plea for support for her agency<\/a>, which is struggling to get re-hydration salts to an impoverished population that will die without them. One of this month’s Just Posts is about poverty in Bangladesh<\/a> and offers an interesting backdrop to the reality that Robin sees in her work — and what went on in my own head when I thought about how “inconvenient” diarrhea was for our family while others are facing it as a life and death situation.<\/p>\n

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Also? A package of oral rehydration salts costs about ten cents.<\/p>\n

Just a thought. And on to Just Posts<\/a>.
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\nThank you thank you thank you thank you to this month’s readers and writers and especially to the new folks who contributed to the April Roundtable… thank you. Be sure to stop by and say hi to my Just Posts Partner, Alejna<\/a>, too!
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