Your gift starts a relationship families in need
For example, are you richer than the average person living in Nicaragua, Paraguay, or Appalachia?
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Yes... because many of the poor living in the Americas live on less than $500 a year, manage without running water, an indoor toilet, car or TV.
No... because the “good life” for most is not about accumulating goods. It’s about relationship—with the land, poetry, music, spiritual traditions, cultural/artistic traditions, family, neighbors, and you—the traveler or foreign friend.
Your gift to Connecticut Quest for Peace (CT Quest) does more than provide emergency aid to needy families. It starts a relationship. When you enter the relationship you open yourself to the rich culture, friendship and spirituality of the poor in Nicaragua, Paraguay, and Appalachia.
“The experience can be life-changing,” said CT Quest coordinator Randy Klein, “and we learn that relationships are most important.”
Programs strengthen cultural traditions
and extend community
Struggling to feed and clothe their families, most poor parents can’t scrape together the extra money needed for music and art lessons, after-school tutoring, or elder care services. For the price of a couple of magazines you can become an extended family member to a child, woman or elder with your gift to:
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provide scholarships to children and adults in instrumental and vocal music, dance, theater/visual arts, as well as tuition to attend local universities.
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gifts also fund natural medicine, computer science, sewing, culinary programs, and specialized programs for the deaf.
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senior programs give dignity and comfort to the elderly. After a lifetime performing backbreaking labor, many elderly face a bleak future of illness and poverty. ​​
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Has your child outgrown her violin, flute or other musical instrument? Contact us and donate it CT Quest.​​
Want to meet the children who benefit from your generosity? Take a look at our Photo Gallery.
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