Lost in Faith

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Sit back and imagine what it would be like to grow up as one of these children.  A gift of $100 a month could change the course of their life and their country.
The video is from Bambisana which is near Lusikisiki, South Africa.  These children have come from school for a meal.  Notice that there [...]

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Sorry for the picture snafu.  I accidentally but listed the first album as private.  I think it is all kosher now and in about 20 minutes the second album will be up.  South Africa Pictures

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Day 7b and following
Leaving the airport we headed to Grahamstown where Rufus and Almaire live and the future home of Emily Duggan as she student teaches at a private school there.  It is clear to see that Grahamstown is a different city.  It is not African but more a British feel.  It was there that [...]

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After waiting for an appointment that didn’t show, we left for Bukwini where we arrived at 10 am.  The committee was waiting for us but we needed to get the formalities out of the way so Dr. Joy could begin seeing patients.
After they reported on things they are being done we began discussions about the [...]

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Met with Mike and Freddy, two SA doctors from the Free State or as they joked Freeze State.  Both of these guys were a delight to talk with.  Freddy is a self proclaimed Pee-diatrician, or in more gentile terms Pediatric Urologist.  He is pioneering surgical treatment of Vistula (see wikopedia on this one!).  One day [...]

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16 hours on a plane has come to mean  simply two books, The Three Letter Disease and How to Tell a Story plus a little The Great Omission.  Flights were uneventful and our arrival in Durban early, thanks SAA.

A little high anxiety when Nicholas and Josh were not there to meet us.  After a short [...]

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The Baby Boomers, a brief history!

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Little did I know that a meeting about coffee in Shawnee, KS would lead to repeated trips to South Africa.  Now sitting in Dulles Airport waiting to board a brutal 16 hour flight, I am hoping once again that the money and time will be well spent.
The first half of this trip is about physicians.  [...]

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