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Seventy percent of the flowers sold in floral shops and supermarkets throughout the United States and the developed world are produced on plantations in Colombia, Ecuador and Kenya. The companies that own these plantations or outsource work to them often deprive workers of rights and proper wages. According to the Center for Research and Advisory Health, a non-profit social medicine organization that has worked in Latin America since 1979, the average floral worker in Colombia makes 58 cents per hour—far below the national poverty line. Job security is also often nonexistent: workers are hired...
Still, it's not an easy job, and it can be especially tough to be away from family. Lyman Echola, 68, a former teacher in Wisconsin, has frustratingly little phone contact with his grown children, though he has talked them into visiting Ecuador, where he's a WorldTeach volunteer. Others just cart their children along, as did Barbara and Ed Dunsworth, 50 and 55, when they moved from Nova Scotia (where Ed had practiced law) to take a position in South America with Habitat for Humanity. The family lives in Buenos Aires, where the Dunsworths are helping establish a Habitat...
...handicrafts project in Ecuador raised the incomes of participating families by 30 percent after one year, according to Logback...
Carlos Diaz, a teaching fellow in the American Presidency course, also notes that despite the absence of Harvard candidates in the United States, many who have attended the University have gone on to win positions of power overseas, including the former Presidents of Mexico and Ecuador...
MEANWHILE IN ECUADOR ... Punctuality Pays A nationwide synchronization of watches marked the start of a campaign to stamp out the country's legendary tardiness. Locals run on what is referred to as "Ecuadorian time," meaning most people turn up for appointments at least 15 minutes late. The civic group behind the scheme puts the cost of this lax approach at more than $700 million a year. The campaign has the backing of President Lucio Gutierrez, below, who is often as much as three hours late for meetings...