Hillbrow

We leave for Africa in just 4 days! We'll spend one day handing out blankets in Hillbrow, an inner city residential neighbourhood of Johannesburg. It is known for its high levels of population density, unemployment, poverty and crime. The majority of the residents are migrants from the townships, rural areas and the rest of Africa, many living in abject poverty.  I just read "Cry the Beloved Country" by Alan Paton, a history of how the slums and inner city neighborhoods like this came to being.  It's told through the story of a man who travels into one of these areas to find his son and his sister.  You discover the painful reality of life in these neighborhoods through his eyes.