The family, along with two of their friends, Suzanne Bernier and Louis Chabot, were working at orphanages and schools in remote
villages on behalf of a church - affiliated group from their home province of Quebec, reported The Star.
Each year, the WACC, which provides funding for communication development worldwide
on behalf of churches throughout the world, is channeling less
of its funds into large shortwave services and large publishing houses, and more into the development
of small printing presses, the production
of audiocassettes, local drama and music groups, and the use
of communication forms indigeneous to the
village life, such as story telling, puppets and mime.