EXCLUSIVE ONLINE FEATURE: Owner-op Roger Perry’s Excellent Jungleside Adventures
BEAMSVILLE, ON — Roger Perry, 49, is an owner-operator in southwestern Ontario.
Trucking since he finished high school, Perry has worked as both a company driver and an independent and says he’s now in a position where he has “steady growth with a good customer base.”
Next month, he’s taking an eight-day vacation to Nicaragua where he, his 16-year-old son Caleb, fellow Beamsville trucker Matt Walker and six others from his church will help a village dig a well and install a pump so they’ll have access to clean water.
“I’m no doctor or nurse or engineer. I’m just a regular working guy who can dig a well; it’s important work that has to be done.
“Not only that but it’s proven that if we help these people get access to clean water, they won’t need as many doctors and nurses.”
When he was talking to todaystrucking.com about this, his second goodwill trip (his first was last Spring to Guatamela), Perry wasn’t soliciting support, and neither was he showing off.
He simply wants to spread the word to transportation-industry people that, come vacation time, they might like something other than a cookie-cutter trip south and instead travel somewhere like Guatamela or Nicaragua and, well, make a difference in the world.
The seventh of eight children born to his Christian missionary/teacher parents, Perry spent the ages from two to 15 in a remote village in Northern India. “After my childhood experience of not having pure running water in our home, I realize how blessed we are in this country to have a fresh pure water supply at our finger tips.”
The eight-day working trip is costing him about $1,900, which includes flight, food and “everything else we need,” he says. For this most recent trip, he says, some members of his church helped cover the costs.
Perry says he recommends the experience to anyone. Interested people can visit Water.cc. (“You don’t,” he says, “need the www or anything. Just water dot cc.”)
To find out more and to see a great photo of a young Roger Perry toting water on a yoke back in India, check out nicaraguawellproject.blogspot.com
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