Learning About DNA (and Me) at Health Works in Hyde Park
Check the end of this post for details on how to win a R1000 voucher to Hyde Park Corner. I haven't blogged much lately. There are a few reasons for this but the bottom [...]
My Favorite Joburg People: Florence Ngobeni-Allen
I recently announced a storytelling project I’m working on called My Favorite Joburg People. I chose four people in Joburg, each of whom has an amazing story to tell, and interviewed them and shot their portraits. [...]
Summer Camp, South African Style
Day camp in Kagiso — a township surrounded by factories and mine dumps on Johannesburg’s far western edge — is much like day camp at the average American YMCA. But with a lot more [...]
Why I Came to Africa
I first visited Africa four years ago, through my work as a writer for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF for short). Many of my assignments involved visiting health clinics and schools in various [...]
Saving Buildings and Lives in Hillbrow
My fascination with Hillbrow — a former middle-class inner suburb that is now the toughest neighborhood in Joburg — began in February when I explored Hillbrow on a Joburg Photowalk. When I heard there would [...]
Part 3 of 4: A Swazi Reunion
We awoke, soggy and groggy, on the morning after the flood (see Part 2). It was still raining. We picked up Zandi, our Swazi colleague from the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and headed [...]
Final Thoughts on Lesotho
This trip ended more than a week ago but I still have a few more things to say about it. Driving to Mokhotlong The drive from Maseru to Mokhotlong was about 300 kilometers (168 [...]
Horse-riding for Health in Mokhotlong
Let me back-track and explain the purpose of our trip to Lesotho. Bear with me because this will take time. On a map, Lesotho looks like a small dot in the middle of South [...]