I often write about a friend from Zimbabwe on this site, and the ordeals that his family goes through back in Africa. I don't get into intimate details because this person and his brother are good friends.
I met him while making a website for him. He even flew me down to LA to discuss it. It's not the first time that I've had a client fly me down there, but it was the first non-corporate client and the first, um, "adult" client. We have since become good friends.
If you want to know more about him, shoot me a PM. I can't tell you everything, but I can say more in private than I can in a forum.