I am only here to be truly helpful
Thought – feeling-action-outcome (Rev Deborah L Johnson)
I am only here to be truly helpful (A Course in Miracles)
Yesterday one of our
partners came back to the office after being in South Sudan for a while. We sat
down to chat about what’s going on. Let me just say, like me she is not from
Africa, she moved here from London.
She talked about her time
there and was passionate, excited, focused. She said there are so many
opportunities but she will not recommend that I go alone. Naturally I asked
why! She told me two weeks ago she was captured. Captured?? Yes a group of
young men with AK47’s stopped him put her in a bunker and demanded $5,000us
dollars. She said ok its decision time! She decided to talk to them as they
were not more than 16years old. They told her there’s nothing else to do to
make money and capturing people is easy! She told them she would give them
$400, telling them $100us per hour she was in the bunker. She asked them if
they wanted to work, they said no this was easier.
She told me there are more
guns than food, almost every youth walks around with one
There’s no Internet
anywhere outside a certain area, and when rain falls there is none!
She told me about poverty.
So I asked her are you going
back? She said to me, and I will always remember this, will there ever be
another chance in our lifetime to participate in the building of a new nation? You
are into development aren’t you? Well you got to develop something! We have the
tools, we can share. Awesomeness all round!
Peace!!!
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