Sociologist, potter and appropriate technology enthusiast, Ron joined the Peace Corps at the age of 19 and served two 3 year periods in Panama (69-71) and Ecuador (75-78) Served in Bolivia with CRS for 3 years, actively supported an armed resistance against a military dictatorship (1980) , studied at the School for International Training and founded the local consultancy office for the Inter American Foundation in Ecuador till 1988 when he left to work for the Sandinista Revolution. Ron and his family have lived in Nicaragua ever since. He is 59 and hopes to establish at least 100 locally owned self sustaining filter factories worldwide by 2020 producing “Ceramic Weapons of Mass Bacterial Destruction” . "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral" Paulo Freire