Robert *, a young accountant, moves his family from Zimbabwe to escape a declining economic and political climate. he cannot find a job in his field so he works installing security alarms...
David*, a psychology major, teaches himself to sew because there are no jobs for psychologists in Kinshasa. he is kidnapped and marked for execution because of a political comment he made on the radio. he narrowly escapes execution and travels all the way to johannesburg to start over...
these are the people i get to meet each day as part of my job. i suppose they are whom we'd call "the poor", but i have a hard time using this descriptor. meeting them, they are anything but. and there's something about hearing their stories and their determination to "make it despite a bad situation…" that always puts me to shame.
David*, a psychology major, teaches himself to sew because there are no jobs for psychologists in Kinshasa. he is kidnapped and marked for execution because of a political comment he made on the radio. he narrowly escapes execution and travels all the way to johannesburg to start over...
these are the people i get to meet each day as part of my job. i suppose they are whom we'd call "the poor", but i have a hard time using this descriptor. meeting them, they are anything but. and there's something about hearing their stories and their determination to "make it despite a bad situation…" that always puts me to shame.
