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Next Friday morning I will leave my husband and three babies to travel to the other side of the planet. My long anticipated departure will be met with tears, hugs and promises to call and come home...
View ArticleWaiting for the Rains
The bicycle passes, old and rusted, pieced together from dozens of others, tires patched time and time again. The back is loaded with six large jerrycans filled with water. The rider’s sinewy leg...
View ArticleFAITH
My faith has always been unconventional. I have never been able to fit myself into the box of any church or organized religion. Messages that ring true to me come from all over — Christianity,...
View ArticleSHANGA
The boy lays on a frayed woven mat whose colors have long since faded over the years. His contorted legs are supported by an old cushion over which his two crooked, clubbed bare feet hang. His thin...
View ArticleWith Tanzania Maasai Women's Art
We walk quite a ways from the Chief’s boma, stepping over and around thorny acacias, to reach the women who are already gathered under the single tree that casts even a hint of shade, a bit of...
View ArticleHuman Nature
The conversation around our breakfast table has taken a marked turn for the worse this week. Yesterday it was the Kony2012 campaign. “Who is Joseph Kony?” Katharine, our 7-year-old daughter, asks. I...
View ArticleMr. Cheaper Price
Being a consumer, a white American consumer, in Tanzania can be perplexing and exhausting. You know that you pay more for absolutely everything, and you are fine with that… For a while, at least. In...
View ArticleAfrica.com features FAITH!
With Josephine and her daughter Charity Africa.com has featured this story of how I found the divine — or perhaps how the divine found me — last month in Tanzania....
View ArticleUNITE'S Summer Highlights!
We had a very exciting summer this year! Between trunk shows, theater camps, and receiving an entire library of books, we thank you for all your continued support. Check out some of our highlights...
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