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12 Johns Hopkins Magazine • Summer 2011
Teach with Africa The Spring issue showcased important and exciting programs currently conducted in Africa. Another program that may be of interest to readers is a reciprocal education venture between the United States and South Africa that was founded in 2007. Along with my wife, Marjorie, we created Teach with Africa (www .teachwithafrica.org) to respond to the dire shortage of teachers in South Africa and the education disparities that continued to exist post-apartheid. This rapidly growing nonprofit organization has funded multidisciplinary teams (teachers, mental health workers, and MBAs/social entrepreneurs) who assist schools in the townships and rural areas of South Africa each summer and then return to the United States to assist in our own challenged communities. Teach with Africa depends on highly skilled and passionate volunteers for its projects. We are unique in that we fund expenses for these volunteers, and we would welcome Hopkins students, faculty, and alumni as participants. Larry B. Schlenoff, A&S ’68 Founder, Teach with Africa San Francisco, California Peak oil, peak population The most compelling issue in this very interesting article [Wholly Hopkins, “Running on Empty?” Spring] is that the public health community has done such a wonderful job in the last century that the world population has exploded. Just as there is a Hubbert peak for oil production, there are certainly peak points for many other commodities critical to human vitality. With the current emergence of China as a mega-consumer and with the rapidly advancing India joining China, this seems a certainty. Although the article’s focal point was oil, I think it is just an example used to open the door to a much bigger picture, which is: There must be some point at which population growth becomes a huge issue, big