Can One Person Make A Difference?

Enrique "Kiki" Camarena grew up in a dirt-floored house with hopes and dreams of making a difference.

Camarena worked his way through college, served in the Marines and became a police officer.

When he decided to join the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, his mother tried to talk him out it.

"I can't not do this," he told her. "I'm only one person, but I want to make a difference."

The DEA sent Camarena to work undercover in Mexico investigating a major drug cartel believed to include officers in the Mexican army, police and government.

On Feb. 7, 1985, the 37-year-old Camarena left his office to meet his wife for lunch.

Five men appeared at the agent's side and shoved him in a car.

One month later, Camarena's body was found in a shallow grave. He had been tortured to death.

In honor of Camarena's memory and his battle against illegal drugs, friends and neighbors began to wear red badges of satin.

Parents, sick of the destruction of alcohol and other drugs, had begun forming coalitions.

Some of these new coalitions took Camarena as their model and embraced his belief that one person can make a difference.

These coalitions also adopted the symbol of Camarena's memory, the red ribbon.

National Red Ribbon Week

The National Family Partnership organized the first Nationwide Red Ribbon Campaign in 1988.

Since that time, the campaign has reached millions of U.S. children.

Red Ribbon week is an ideal way for people and communities to unite and take a visible stand against drugs.

Show your personal commitment to a drug-free lifestyle through the symbol of the Red Ribbon, October 23 - 31st and by sponsoring schools to receive our drug education materials.

You can help us reach thousands of kids with the truth about drugs right now!

We have schools who have registered to receive these materials but who have no sponsor!

We need your help to get these much needed and requested materials out to our school kids today!

This is a great time of year for getting our kids educated about drugs.

Do what you can to sponsor more schools today.

And make sure to refer your friends and business associates to help us too! Don't wait!

Call Donna Miller and sponsor some schools today! 1-800-882-6862

Sincerely,
Robert Hernandez, CCDC*
President, Friends of Narconon, Intl.
*Certified Chemical Dependency Counselor

P.S. To Sponsor a school. Click here (or copy and paste into your browser):
http://www.friendsofnarconon.org/drug_education/school_sponsorship_program/
Make a donation right now. Click here (or copy and paste into your browser):
http://friendsofnarconon.org/

PSS: I still need just 5 more answers to the quiz "What is the cause of Boredom?".

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