Life in North America luxuriously crowds out thoughts of Africa like a fluffy towel blots out the very moisture on our skin before we can absorb it all. Africa never leaves us, it's infused into us, but it can be diluted by all that our regular life entails.
When you look at a picture like this, how do you respond?
We asked ourselves this question every day when we were on the Hands at Work in Africa (Canada) mission trip to Zimbabwe, in April 2010. We saw children like this everywhere we went: big smiles, joyful spirits, hungry, and destitute, often alone in dealing with crushing poverty without parents around to help them navigate their way.