Donation Dollars at Work

From the Fall 2010 issue of the Academic Nurse - The Journal of Columbia University School of Nursing and its Alumni

Traditional Zulu in Cultural Village near Hluhluwe

At work...

African Jackass Penguins - Cape Penninsula

Scenes from Green Market Square - Cape Town

Life in Woodlands

My host brothers Bom Bom and Thulane giving the teaching me the traditional Zulu handshake.  Soulful!

Robben Island

Former Political Prisoner - Robbin Island  Now leading a tour of the cell block where he was detained for five years because he refused to speak Afrikaans as a university student in the 70's. Above him is the prisoner's quarry, and below him his cell block and the view just out side the guards office of the prison. 

Umlazi Township

Spent the afternoon with some brilliant children in Durban's largest township...

Orphaned by AIDS or abandoned because they're HIV +

45 kids live and attend school in these three rooms

Typical temporary dwelling-- it takes years (and sometimes countless Rand) to get a more permanent shack

Savory Start

Airport self-portrait

Stuck behind Flavor Flav in security line at Heathrow en-route from NYC to South Africa.  Took a while for him to remove every piece of bling and put it in in the bin.  In the end he opted for the wand, so he didn't have to take out his gold caps and send them through the x-ray.  One of the security officials didn't know who he was and asked her colleague why he, "needed both a watch and a clock."