May 15, 2012
Plattsburgh, NY

Love to Golf? How about for a good cause? Join the Mission of Hope on June 29, 2012 at 12:30 for the 8th annual McSweeney’s/Mission of Hope Golf Classic at The Barracks Golf Course, Plattsburgh, NY. The Barracks Golf Course is located at the southernmost end of Arizona Avenue on the former Plattsburgh Air Force Base.

All-you-can-eat Michigans and Much More buffet prepared by McSweeney’s and Delores Vivian.

All proceeds go to the Children Feeding Children Program of the North Country Mission of Hope.

Last year, the Mission fed 350 children in grades Pre-k – 3 each day. The children received a hot meal, (usually rice and beans),a drink and a multi-vitamin.

This event is the best value for your golfing dollar in the North Country! Reward your loyal employees, good customers or friends and bring them with you to the tournament!

Sponsorships are available. To participate or for more information, contact Marty Mannix at 518-569-5615 or at mdmannixjr@gmail.com.

April 16, 2012
Online: Medfield Patch.com
By: Colleen Sullivan

Two Medfield sisters were recently on a mission … a mission trip that is.

Medfield High School students, MaryEllen and Anna Krah travelled to Nicaragua
with the Mission of Hope from Plattsburgh, N.Y. during their February school vacation in hopes of making a difference to the young children and their families.

But this time around they not only heard about it, they signed up to take part.

Read the entire article, see more pictures….Medfield Teens Take Part

February 12, 2012
Huffington Post
By FILADELFO ALEMAN and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN

CHICHIGALPA, Nicaragua — Jesus Ignacio Flores started working when he was 16, laboring long hours on construction sites and in the fields of his country’s biggest sugar plantation.

Three years ago his kidneys started to fail and flooded his body with toxins. He became too weak to work, wracked by cramps, headaches and vomiting.

On Jan. 19 he died on the porch of his house. He was 51. His withered body was dressed by his weeping wife, embraced a final time, then carried in the bed of a pickup truck to a grave on the edge of Chichigalpa, a town in Nicaragua’s sugar-growing heartland, where studies have found more than one in four men showing symptoms of chronic kidney disease.

A mysterious epidemic is devastating the Pacific coast of Central America….read the entire article