Hope sustains

[John Mutua]

The Karurumo team one of the five communities I am working in,organized an home visit into one of the homes of an orphan that comes for the KAY club meeting(KIDS AND YOUTH CLUB).KAY clubs is the avenue that we use to connect with youth in the communities,whereby communities have identified a field were kids and youth meet during the week-ends.The grand mother of the child lives in a government grave yard!What keeps you going Mama,One of the members of the group asks?The grandmother,pauses,stares in the distance,and with a glow in her face says"my grandchildren are doing so well in school!I hope that they will be important people in life and they make me work very hard".As the group reflects one of the members says-this is the hope that sustains,I am learning to think about others situations and participate in peoples lives.

[Onesmus Mutuku]

search for points of light in the community - good one

[Rituu B. Nanda]

Here is a story of hope all the way from Brazil during Glocon facilitated by Ian and Alison Campbell. 

Ebeneser Nogueira When working in violent places and start losing loved ones because of the violence, it is common we do not see reason to be there or even to continue working. In these phases of our work, when violence was crushing us, Ian Campbell taught me something unforgettable: search for points of light in the community. And then we could see that it was not useless work there and that people were being affected and changed through our work. Then hope returned and had the strength to continue. 

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