A well-to-do couple in Pretoria, South Africa, recently spent one month living in the slums on the outside of town.
As reported in the New York Times, the young couple, Julian and Ena Hewitt, moved into a 100-square-foot shack with no running water or electricity. Called an experiment of “radical empathy,” the couple learned to live on $10 a day. With them were their two children, ages 4 and 2. Needless to say, they came away with a life lesson on the difference between the haves and the have-nots, as well as determined to devote at least a part of their lives to bridge…
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