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Article: Apple missionaries hope trip bears fruit.(General News)(Nepal: A Eugene man will help remote villagers learn how to graft trees.)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- February 24, 2002
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Byline: JEFF WRIGHT The Register-Guard
It's the graft that has William Cambier of Eugene boarding a plane Tuesday for Nepal.
Not the political kind, but the opportunity to teach villagers in the remote Asian country in the Himalayas how to graft apple trees.
Aside from Mexico, Cambier, 54, had never traveled abroad until last March when he made his first trip to Nepal under the auspices of Apple Tree International, a nonprofit group that provides training in fruit and nut tree propagation to subsistence farmers in Third World areas.
The experience so moved Cambier that he has decided to return to Nepal - despite having raised only ...