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When Elephants Fly: One Woman's Journey from Wall Street to Zululand, Carol
Batrus recounts her experience working on a WILD Foundation project in KwaZulu
Natal, South Africa, the place where WILD began more than 30 years ago. After
ten years on Wall Street with its high-powered, fast paced lifestyle, arriving
in a Zulu village without electricity, running water or telephones was not only
a world away but a century removed from everything familiar to Carol. Her
mission: to establish a self-help, training and micro-development project that
had positive conservation, social and economic benefits for the local Zulus
without impeding their culture. Living with danger and dealing daily with
unknown issues in a complex traditional society, she kept her values clear and
simple, her feet on the ground, and her tongue in her cheek as she started a
project that continues today, managed by the local people. With adept
storytelling skill suffused with humor, irony and compassion, Carol brings the
reader in to her life in Africa.
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