Donor Profile
Waldraut S. Lavroff from Georgia
Being ‘In tune with nature’ is how I have always thought of myself. I was born and grew up in a forested area of Central Germany. My first friends and earliest playmates were animals. The wild birds coming for seed at our windowsills had names, and as a child I was convinced that the birds knew the names I had given them.
When I came to the United States as an adult I marveled at not only the enormous size of this land, but also its beautiful nature. I found it difficult to understand how some areas could have been devastated by careless development, not only in cities but in rural areas as well. I still find it hard to believe that abandoned cars engulfed by weeds can be in such close proximity to houses in which people live!
