Lindsay Stevens, 16, is a student at the Deerfield Academy, United States, and has volunteered at Philani in South Africa.

The Gross Divide Between the Rich and the Poor

I could not believe my eyes when I walked through the narrow dirt pathways between the hundreds of rickety tin shacks in the township of Khayalitisha in South Africa. A beautiful African girl, not much younger than me, wearing a pale pink skirt that casually hung below her hips and a white, dirt-stained tank top, led me to Sekwamkele's hut.