Download or read book Because They Needed Me: Rita Miljo and the Orphaned Baboons of South Africa written by Rita Miljo and published by PBS Publications. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. Nature. Travel. In May of 2007, noted American poet and novelist and son of Holocaust refugees Michael Blumenthal went to South Africa to volunteer at C.A.R.E., a rehabilitation center for orphaned and injured baboons founded by Rita Miljo. Rita was a Lithuanian-born childhood member of the Hitler Youth who had gone on to have a life as adventure- filled as Beryl Markham's in West With the Night.