From 1996: James Martin, SJ, on the stories of East African refugees
Photo by Julie Ricard on Unsplash Editors’ Note: In this article from May 18, 1996, James Martin, S.J., who at the time was studying at Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge. Mass., reflected on his two years working with refugees in Africa. After two years of work in East Africa, puzzling over which malaria pills to take, elbowing onto crowded, diesel-spewing mini-buses, muddling through a Swahili course, fighting food poisoning, carefully arranging mosquito nets and traveling by foot, car, Land Rover, bus, boat, train and a flimsy five-seat plane through Kenya, Tanzania and ...
Source: americamagazine.org