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When Dr. Bob Scott and Lamont Nickens set out on their first trip to Zimbabwe in 1999, their plan was to shop for the beautiful Shona sculptures they had come to love.
They fell in love with the southern African nation. So much so that they made a return trip nine months later. In that short time, a number of the artists and other people they had met had died of AIDS-related illnesses. One night, Nickens and Scott saw a news program about the Mother of Peace Orphanage, which was caring for scores of children orphaned or abandoned as a result of AIDS sweeping through southern Africa.