In the beginning of 2014 I was invited by a non-profit religious group to travel more than 150 miles from Belm (the capital of the state of Par in northern Brazil) to a small city in Maraj Island, Bagre. I knew about as much about Par and its culture going in as I know about brain surgery: nothing.
The clients brief went something like this: you have seven days to cover the work of fifteen volunteers that will be scattered through the region offering medical... more