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Life has been good to Mervyn L. and Joyce Alphonso: four healthy children, a six-bedroom house, a Mercedes in the driveway. But a few decades ago, life was much bleaker. They were both surviving day to day in Guyana, their families crowded into small cottages without indoor plumbing. Mervyn's father had died when he was 13, casting the youngster into the work force as a messenger who also attended school; Joyce studied furiously in the hopes of getting a job abroad...
After thorough research and long family talks, the Alphonsos joined the Peace Corps. They shuttered their house and prepared to return to their native land: Guyana. Only this time around, they would be teaching life skills and preventive health care to a downtrodden population that they knew all too well...
...Alphonsos, their perspective shifted dramatically when they returned to their homeland of Guyana, where mosquitoes, jaded students, frequent blackouts and an irregular water supply were part of daily life. "I learned that you can really live very happily as long as you have good relationships with the people around you. You don't have to have all the amenities that we in this country seem to have," Mervyn says...
...same time, since a considerable portion of the total debt was owed to the IMF, it was hardly enthusiastic about what debt forgiveness would do to its balance sheet. Given all this, it was not too surprising that only three countries - Uganda, Bolivia and Guyana - met the hurdles and received debt relief. Those concerned with the plight of the poor in developing countries were frustrated by the slow pace of debt forgiveness. In 2000, the Jubilee movement mobilized sufficient public opinion to the point where debt forgiveness was greatly extended and the hurdles adjusted to a more reasonable level...
...former accounting manager, who moved to the U.S. from Guyana in 1967, says the store represents her “final career in the human scene.” After closing the store at the end of the month, she plans to become a full-time Christian Science healer...