Thursday, February 9, 2012

B.C. couple demonstrates 'Heavenly Kindness'

Emergency aid boosts Salvadoran recovery from floods


Mike Rasmussen (right) sits with a field worker in Las Delicias, El Salvador.
Special to The B.C. Catholic

Mike Rasmussen sells houses in the Lower Mainland, but spends a great deal of time building up hope in El Salvador, with his wife. The B.C. Catholic's Laureen McMahon shares the experience:

Coquitlam realtor Mike Rasmussen and his wife Angelique, a teacher at St. Patrick's elementary in Maple Ridge, teamed up in 2005 with Project F.I.A.T. International, a volunteer program of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus which helps the desperately poor in the tropical jungles of El Salvador.

Twice a year the Rasmussens travel to the missions near San Salvador to bring relief through their registered B.C. society Aura Humanitus (Heavenly Kindness).



Read more at The B.C. Catholic website.

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