You had to think ahead about what the needs were, when the next truck is coming this way or the next plane. You went into a stall with warm water and threw a bucket over your head. Va. Her first was doing hurricane relief in the Caribbean in 1995. She began with the Red Cross as a volunteer in Milwaukee 17 years ago and became a paid staff member four years later. Still, nothing prepared her for the rigors of a year in Tanzania.
Stops wound up with three seven-day vacations during the year.
She managed to make the most of them, venturing on a camping trip via camel, taking a hot air balloon safari in Kenya, and spending a week touring Zanzibar by motor scooter.