How do you honour a contract to plant 100,000 trees when nobody wants the job? As a Mennonite Central Committee coordinator in Labrador, Nelson Scheifele called the provincial correctional centre nearby for help.
This was just one of Nelson and Joy Scheifele's experiences as MCC Canada program coordinators in Labrador for six years. Their jobs included administration, supervising up to 10 MCC workers, development and education work, and Ten Thousand Villages sales. They recently returned to Waterloo.
The tree-planting began as a government make-work project for people on social assistance, but low pay and costs would have left them no better off. So Nelson arranged for …
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