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Isikhati Yami eVVOCF, eMsanzi Afrika
Sawubona! (hello). Unjani (how are you?). In: isiZulu, language spoken in South Africa and parts of Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana, and Zimbabwe. The following entry is my first ever piece written in Zulu!!
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Back in the US - Reflections from South Africa!
Reflections on Summer Internship with Asian Pacific Islander American Health Forum
A Humbling Experience
It was December of 2006 and I was applying for a communications internship at the Innocence Project. I wrote the following in a cover letter directed to their communications department:
DC-Urban Institute Summer Internship Program for Juniors, Deadline extended to March 15th!
The application deadline is March 8, 2008. All application packages must be postmarked by this date. – Extended to March 15, 2008.
Getting my hands dirty in Africa
It is easy to take the statistics, even one of an epidemic,
and never fully understand them as anything else other than numbers. No emotion
goes into reading numbers, no humanity is necessary to analyze graphs, charts,
or percentages. But there is some emotional baggage that comes with hearing the
stories of those individual people who are affected by something like HIV AIDS.
There is something deafening, something biting, something ultimately
frustrating and scary that comes with choosing to take a walk on the human side
of a figure like: "Some 15 million children under age 18 have lost one or
both parents to AIDS," or "...new projections that expanded access to
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