"Now you know."

For years, we've heard about, read about, and seen images on TV and in movies. We knew about Africa's dying generation...at least we thought we did. But now we KNOW. We know that seeing a child in complete poverty, surrounded by hundreds of other children in complete poverty does something to the soul and spirit that images and words can't.

It's heartbreaking and it's overwhelming. Your first thoughts are to do what so many have done in so many similar situations around the world...to block it out, to leave it for another person, another group, another generation to deal with. In the first 48-hours, Gina and I questioned our decision to go. Our being there couldn't possibly make a difference. We were disheartened.

Over the course of the next five days, we were changed. The people we met, worked with and worked for compelled us, not to walk away, but to dive in, to get more involved...(finish reading here)