Kelvin & Charlene?

The stories I wrote are fiction.

My goal was to move the statistics from their status as cold numbers to the living reality they reflect.

The journal entries and pictures by my sister, Charlene, are true. They are snapshots of her time working as a nurse in Zambia. As an editor, I have left her writing as intact as possible.

The idea of using parallel storylines was to contrast the state of the third world, with the richness of North America. Should this book be taken a reflection of whole continents?

Of course not.

The issues confronting Africa and North America are complex and diverse. This humble book cannot hope to cover them all. I would strongly encourage you to research the issues raised in this book for yourself.

Ultimately, our biggest goals for this project are to raise awareness, provoke thought, and most of all to prompt action. I hope we have achieved that in a small way.

Kelvin

P.S. Any resemblances between the authors and the monkeys are, of course, entirely coincidental.