Converse
Posted on May 10, 2010 by Barak in Africa | No Comments
She is HIV+. She has no husband. She has 3 children, all of them are negative. She lives in a mud house on the edge of Addis Ababa. Her rent is 400 birr, or about $20. She lives on less than a dollar a day. You do the math. There’s no way I can understand her life – it’s as blurry as her photo. She speaks only Amharic. There’s no way I can converse with her. I look over my dusty, American shoes at the coffee she roasts, grinds and brews all by hand. Her smile lights up the dusty walls as she hands me a cup of black, sugary Ethiopian coffee. Amazing. How is it that something so simple has such power to create common ground.
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