Entries from November 2008 ↓

This is one of the very first articles I had ever written. It was for a friend of mine. But then, I sent the article and it was published in the Kalamazoo gazette in April. It is of course about a woman, or call her an angel – some one who helped me one day in the middle of a busy road out of nowhere.

It was a usual fall morning in Kalamazoo, a small city in Michigan. The clouds were dark and the wind was freezing and it was going to snow soon. The first snow of the season always brought a lot of excitement. I have lived almost a year now in this small university town but still everything was new around me.

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“Wait until you go to Malawi”, my friend Anne told me. “My mom is going to make sure you have a real village experience”. We stood talking outside of my medical school campus, on the eve of my departure for this southeast African country, the homeland of my friend. We had spent many nights talking about her childhood in Africa, as she spoke of her family of 8 living in two rooms at the back of a church. She watched many of her school friends die of cholera, and when times were hard she ate the same porridge for every meal. She spent most of her life in a village, which she said is the heart of Africa, where most of the living and suffering occurs. Continue reading →

Hello Friends, I am Arleen, a nurse, wife and mom of 2 wonderful children. I have served as a nurse in many countries like India, Saudi Arabia, Israel and UK. I haven been a nurse all my life. That was my first and the only profession I was always interested in.

Years ago I got an opportunity to work in a hospital in SA when my 1st child was three years old. It was a tough decision but because my husband is extremely supportive and committed to our family we both mutually decided to taken up this offer. Continue reading →