Twenty-Six Years Under One Sky
At its 26th anniversary gala in New York, the Health and Educational Relief Organization (H.E.R.O.) kept silence for the lives lost on the MV Barima, remembered co-founder Dr. Collie Oudkerk, and honoured five people who carry its medical and educational missions to Guyana. Terrence Blackman reflects on an institution that began among student friends and now reproduces itself.