The following is an accounting by Owen Langbart, owner and director of Merrick Woods Country Day Camp, of his recent volunteer trip to South Africa.

We met in the parking lot of the Baragwanath Hospital, the world's largest hospital, receiving 1,000 AIDS patients each day. There I met five other North American volunteers and 40 South Africans who would become my fellow camp counselors. On the two-hour bus ride to the camp, I was immersed in tribal songs (Zulu and Sotho), dancing and clapping, and offered some kind of South African food spread onto white bread (still not sure what it was).
That was the start of my experience with Camp Sizanani, a camp in South Africa that runs programs for children whose lives are affected by HIV/AIDS.

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