Abstract

Phenomenological reflection prepared me to work with the Mizo people to prevent a historical cyclical famine known as Mautam. Further work through the network of connections facilitated the development of the nonprofit, Health Reach Canada, Inc. (HRC). One HRC project resulted in the provision of life-giving water access in Majuwa, Nepal, a leper village. This work led me to be in Tanzania at exactly the right place and moment to save my life, as I had suffered from undiagnosed malaria since the work in Mizoram. That experience not only changed my life but my Lifeworld context as Schütz presented it.