“We had both become very interested in global health after spending six weeks in Thailand on an HIV project,” said Stringer, an associate professor in the . “I remember the night we decided to move to Zambia. We were sitting outside at a Lebanese restaurant on a warm, beautiful night, and I just burst into tears.”
Stringer had been to Zambia once before, and admittedly had never considered moving there.
“It was just scary. I wasn’t connected to Zambia then, and I saw it very superficially. A rundown hotel, food I didn’t like, poverty. To uproot our family with young children and move to this place seemed crazy. But, I knew that I had to do it. It was the right thing to do, and I felt that calling to help people around the world.”
When Stringer stepped onto Zambian soil for the second time, it wasn’t long before everything changed.