At a time when fruit growers in British Columbia, Canada, were feeling the pinch of a sinking economy, they reached out to help needy people in Third World countries. A six-week program initiated by the B.C. Fruit Growers’ Association called Farmers Helping Farmers collected $4,530 from its members for World Vision Canada to buy tropical fruit trees in countries such as Angola, Bangladesh, Cambodia, the Congo, India, Mauritania, North Sudan, and Sri Lanka. The program, which ended in December, was the idea of BCFGA Vice-President Fred Steele, who believes the association needs to be even more proactive and community minded […]