When I'm not working on this website or answering your letters, I am the Executive Director of a small global humanitarian non-profit agency, the Global Development Center (GDC). Because GDC refuses to use unrequested direct mail, telephone solicitation, or use photos of starving children to create guilt, we are solely Internet-based and entirely dependent on the good will of our site's visitors. Unfortunately, our decision not to use "pressure tactics" to get donations has meant that we are continually impoverished, but we still feel this is the ethical way to treat the public. As a result, we have to look for things we can "give" people before we can ask them to give to us.

Recently, we put up a jigsaw puzzle of "New York City today", following the tragedy of September 11, as an inspirational gift especially designed for children having difficulty understanding what had happened. It turned out that adults found the puzzle as much fun and inspiring as the kids. So we have developed a "Global Puzzle Corner" with a variety of jigsaw puzzles of people and places all over the world as a means of encouraging global understanding and cooperation at a time when tensions are running so high as a result of global terrorism.

Since many of my visitors at the MiddleAge.org site are looking for a little inspiration as well and since we are all in need of global understanding, I thought I would make these puzzles available to you too. When you click on the link, a separate frame will open in your browser that takes you directly to the Global Puzzle Corner. I hope you visit and enjoy it!

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