South Africa Rez Life 2015 Team

Barb is only able to send us text updates so I apologize for the short update:  Youth are wonderful!  Today we visited the Hillcrest AIDS Center*.  We participated in an information session, toured the greenhouse, upscale art center, food scheme, and sewing group.  We...

Malawi Medical Mission: Tuesday, 6/30/15

We heard the elephants in the middle of the night! The staff has been telling us that elephants sometimes walk through the camp at night and we were beginning to think they might be messing with us. The noise we heard was unmistakably the trumpeting of elephants...

South Africa Rez Life 2015 Trip

While Day 1 was all about flights, arrival, customs, and driving, all went really well.  Then we were off for a Fantastic Day 2. We enjoyed some time at the beach and had a chance to put our feet in the Indian Ocean before returning to camp to meet the youth from...

Malawi Medical Mission: Monday, 6/29/15

After coffee and breakfast the team once again headed out at 6am for our morning game drive. The air was more brisk than the previous morning and most of us were huddled under blankets in the truck. We got to see many of the same animals, this time making sure we got...

Malawi Medical Mission: Sunday 6/28/15

Today’s 5am wake-up call was rough. We all slugged our way up to breakfast where we caffeinated up for the first 4 hour game drive. We left in two large land rovers – Kristen, Shandi, Eric, Dorothy & Harriet in one; Chifundo, Hugo, Mary-Beth, Kip &...