After having the penny drive dill pickle jar on the staff room table at work out for 2 months, the grand total raised is:  $69.24!!  Wow!  It’s amazing what 2 months of spare change can add up to!

Thank you to all the lovely people I work with for their donations.  These are folks one fly’s eyelash away from minimum wage and still they find the charity in their hearts to give up that vending machine goody and think about banishing worldwide poverty.

This money will be put to good use.  We are trying to raise enough to buy the hospital in Malawi (where we’ll be going in October 2007) another X-Ray machine.  Up until now, the doctor there was working purely with a stethoscope only helping 400 people a month in the world’s most densely populated AIDS infected area. 

And we worry if we can’t find a band-aid for a paper-cut…