Byline: Mac Margolis
Africa needed hearing aids. Howard Weinstein got a chance to start over.
It's a long way from Montreal to Otse, a speck of a town in the backcountry of Botswana. But Howard Weinstein, 57, is glad he made the journey. When he first arrived in this parched community of 3,500 at the edge of the Kalahari desert five years ago, the retired Canadian business executive knew it would be no holiday. All the same, Weinstein just took a deep breath; all he wanted was a place where he could put his life back together. The civic group World University Service of Canada had sent him to Otse. His mission was to set up a company that would provide affordable ...