Jillian Reilly is an American writer, consultant, wife and mother now living in South Africa. She has worked in the global aid industry across Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe for more than 15 years.
Twenty-three-year-old Jillian Reilly went to southern Africa in 1993 at the close of apartheid, desperate to do good. 'Shame' is her story: the story of a young American woman growing up, and old, in Africa. Realizing her own limitations, and the sorry realities of the big business of doing good.