The Coonrod Network - All Things Coonrod - End World Hunger!

<body> <p><b>Dr. John Coonrod</b> is vice president of <a href="http://thehungerproject.com"> The Hunger Project</a> a global, strategic organization committed to the sustainable end of world hunger. In more than 5,000 villages in Asia, Africa and Latin America, <a href="http://thehungerproject.us"> The Hunger Project</a> ends world hunger by empowering grassroots people to transform the deeply entrenched social conditions that systematically deny them the opportunity to build lives of self-reliance and dignity. </p> <p>The Coonrod family is involved in more things than world hunger and <a href="http://thehungerproject.ca"> The Hunger Project</a> - diffi- cult subjects like physics, landmark court decisions, music, drama and local democracy. </p> <p>I am frequently reminded of the quote by Garcia Lorca: "The day hunger is ended in the world, there will be the greatest spiritual explosion humanity has ever seen. We cannot imagine the joy that will burst forth on the day of that great revolution." </p> <i> <p>The International Institute for Rural Reconstruction grew out of the pioneering grassroots development movement founded in the 1920s in China by Y.C. James Yen. In 1950, the IIRR created the following credo, that all its animators memorize.</p> </i> <p>Go to the people.</p> <p>Live among them / Learn from them.</p> <p>Plan with them. / Work with them.</p> <p>Start with what they know.</p> <p>Build on what they have.</p> <p>Teach by showing; learn by doing.</p> <p>Not a showcase, but a pattern.</p> <p>Not odds and ends, but a system.</p> <p>Not a piecemeal but integrated approach.</p> <p>Not to conform, but to transform.</p> <p>Not relief, but release.</p> <hr> <p>"I sit on a man’s back choking him and making him carry me and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all possible means except getting off his back." - Leo Tolstoy </p> <hr> <p>"This, then, is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well. The oppressors, who oppress, exploit and rape by virtue of their power, cannot find in this power the strength to liberate either the oppressed or themselves. Only power that springs from the weakness of the oppressed will be sufficiently strong to free both."</p> <p>Paolo Friere, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, p 26.</p> <p>Some other links relevant to the Coonrod family include:</p> <p><a href="john/john51.htm" target="main">John Coonrod</a> and his work with <a href="john/thp.htm">The Hunger Project</a>.</p> <p><a href="hugh/index.html" target="main">Hugh Coonrod</a></p> <p><a href="east.htm">Eastern US Coonrod count</a></p> <p><a href="west.htm">Western US Coonrod count</a></p> <p><a href="australia.htm">Australia Coonrod information</a></p> <p><a href="genealogy.htm">Genealogy of Coonrod households</a></p> <p><a href="john/thp.htm">World hunger</a></p> <p><a href="dhp.htm">Das Hunger Projekt</a></p> <p><i>(c) 2004 - John Coonrod</i></p> </body>