It has been well over 7 months since my last post on this blog. I took the backstage. Perhaps because I'm not an ardent fan of blogging and tweeting. Or was there was a dry out of ideas? Umm.. I doubt. I wanted to "take care of life" first...hope you know what I mean. I've been a little busy though, with a couple of travelling here and there. A couple of partnerships here and there. A couple of setbacks here and there, raising funds here and there... makes me realise its time to resume with some blog posts cos you never really finish "taking care of life," do you?
That was enough time for me though, to conceive a vision. I have a dream, you know? It started when I became a partner in a two man regional supervisory team to the Amansie West and Central Districts of the Ashanti Region during the recent NID on polio. Prior to that was a similar monitoring on LLIN distribution in the Bekwai municipality, and that's where the dream began: in the deprived villages of these districts.
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| NID monitoring: some kids sharing a meal at Mile 9 village, Amansie West District. The one below 5years was given 2 drops of the polio vaccine. He may be protected from polio, but how about diarrhoea or worm infestation? An example of "health without wealth". |
The more I saw malnourished children playing football barefooted in the hot African sand, the more I witnessed them eat plain rice without stew, the more I saw young men my age burning precious time away in the village squares apparently because there are no jobs, the more I heard stories of their recent poor returns on farming, the more I saw young ladies visibly struck with poverty with four or more children, the sparkle in their eyes upon seeing you step out of a government 4WD presuming you're some sort of Santa Claus... the more I saw, the more the dream took shape.
