After a week and a half of working with Zimele in KwaZulu Natal, we had a little time to relax in Cape Town. So what did we do? We jumped into the Ocean with great white sharks!

Today was the last day of home visits for us during a week where we had become emotionally, spiritually, and thus, physically spent. Not only that, our morning visits had already psychologically draining. For our final home visit, there were 3 of us from our team, Daphne, and 4 of the Zulu women from the [...]

The rancid odor of an barely existing, hardly breathing, rotting and dying human being, wallowing away in human urine, fecal matter and neglect, is something that I never thought would experience became a hard and fast reality in my life with the image, odor, and memory that has been branded in my mind and heart [...]

As an elementary teacher in Bergen County, it was customary to have a yearly budget with which I’d purchase school supplies for my classroom. It was a pretty hefty budget of $400-500. One of things taken for granter when living in Northern NJ is that our classrooms are very well-stocked, well-lit, clean and decorated.
Pre-school Classroom [...]

Before I left for my South Africa trip this year, I had mixed feelings about the fact that I would have to spend my 32nd birthday in South Africa. Little did I know, God had different idea about my birthday this year and I could never have imagined what it was that God would teach [...]