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Dan was born in Mexico. He's lived in
Guatemala and Mexico. He's traveled throughout Central America and has
been to Cuba many times. He's noticed that there are many mission
efforts to help poor people in accessible places. In contrast, his
mission is to reach the people in the least accessible places -where you
have to drink from a river and sleep on the ground, where you eat what
you are offered and can make no plans because you have no idea what to
expect.
His goal isn't just to help poor people, because some are more worthy
than others. His goal is also not just to help the worthy people,
either, because many worthy people are not necessarily needy. His goal,
then, is to reach the most worthy of the most needy, and to make more
people worthy along the way. To that end he has given away hundreds of
thousands of dollars in the last 10 years. He doesn't receive donations
from any sources for the work he does, and until right now, there's
almost no one who knows of it. He says that very seldom do people
understand his true motivation.
He does contract computer programming. He likes to write poetry that
wrestles with the biggest questions about life, and he likes to do it in
a rhyming and metered style for the challenge that it presents.
His wife's name is Pam. His daughters are Ilissa and Alanah. Their son
Dan lives in Austin with his wife, and made them grandparents in
February.
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