I don’t know when it came to be that God owed me a favour but some how, some way I find myself in the land that I call home, where a typical work day has come to be: me, my witty and intelligent co – fellow and other colleagues driving through Queen Elizabeth national park, well protected by my ancestor’s guards – the Rwenzori mountains – on our way back from either facilitating a training, conducting an evaluation, performing an assessment or a facility support supervision visit at a landing site village right by lake George that is surrounded by a few other magnificent crater lakes….What can I say, life is good.
When I joined the Global health Corps family I can guarantee you that I didn’t envision the latter. Serving within severely deprived communities in the public health world like we do can be exhausting, draining, quickly demotivating and everything that comes with working long hours taking nutrition assessments in a community where 70+ % of the cutest, most adorable babies are acutely malnourished. But! Just but! If you, like me, catch those exchanges of un faltering love between a resilient mukonzo mama and her beautiful child, a random magnificent breath taking elephant crossing the road, a wink in agreement from an awesome co –fellow or that priceless smile you get from someone in the community that lets you know that the work your doing is actually impactful…….Take the moment, its yours.