I just made it back to Uganda, where I’ll start teaching tomorrow, after a rushed but beautiful visit across the border to Kenya. The trip concluded, as any good movie should, with a good high-speed chase punctuated by gun fire. Ok, it wasn’t actually gunfire, but I was riding helmet-less and bare-armed on the back [...]
Archive for June, 2010
If you have a broom
Jun 28
Off to Africa again!
Jun 21
I’m headed to Africa again for the next two weeks! I’ll be teaching a course in International Development of Developing Countries for Eastern University as part of their low-residency Master’s degree option that meets in Uganda this year. I was hoping it would meet in South Africa again this year, as it did last year [...]
Back by popular demand, here’s a blog written back in 2008 while in South Africa, about children soaking up a different perspective on the world’s resources:
Today Phoebe spoke five miraculous words: “I really like this spinach.”
In that moment I believed my husband was the greatest chef who ever lived.
Or just that Phoebe is learning that [...]
My husband was recently interviewed for an article you can read here, in Character First Magazine, about our time piloting a microfinance project in rural South Africa. That was what brought us to Africa, but as you can read in my book, most of the time the work was no garden of roses blooming left [...]
Not sure if your interest in orphans around the world is peaked by the last blog, but mine was. Then along came an email from an old friend who does intense front-lines policy-making development work in places like Washington D.C. and London, meeting with people like Obama and Bono. She’s involved in the launching of [...]
Digging through old journals I discovered a page I wrote on my first experience overseas, a week-long vacation to Acapulco, Mexico with my family during college. It will likely strike a chord with many people after their first trip into a developing country. Here it is in poem form.
Don’t let me lose a minute of [...]
Adoption
Jun 8
Consider:
Every 15 SECONDS, another child becomes an AIDS orphan in Africa
Approximately 250,000 children are adopted annually, but…
Every YEAR 14,050,000 children still grow up as orphans and AGE OUT of the system (see source.)
I share here one of the most lovely explanations of adoption I have heard. This is from a talk given by Pierre, [...]
