It’s one of those very classical Mondays when we wake up a little bit groggy and sleepy. I have important things to do at 05:30, so I thrown myself out of bed, because my alarm has the merciless name: “I don’t care if it hurts.” Each day, many things hurt, and I don’t care if they do. I choose to live my life in a certain way, and if stuff hurts, if there are wounds, well… band-aid, and onward we go.
Well today was a day that required many band-aids. The strategy that I deploy whenever something hurts is to wait because I know for sure – bad things do not last. Good things do come, we only have to be a little patient. And so, at about noon, my colleague Mugoya Swaliki came to me with the news that the school roof is ready! When the pictures eventually loaded and I could see the beautiful blue roof over the walls and pillars of our school, I held my breath for a moment, thinking, you know – goodness me! I have not been living in vain!
This is not my effort, not my merit alone. My colleague Mugoya Swaliki and myself, we are the team made in heaven; we crib and fight and yell at each other and hug each other (just virtually) and finally, and we work from morning into night to settle things and to organize and to catch up, to build and to heal and to feed. I would like to believe that there aren’t many people out there in this world, who work so well as we do.
And then, the merit, huge and complete, goes to the people that made this possible. Friends, your list is so long, your names are so many, I cannot list them here. But I hold you all in my heart, even if you sent 5 euros or 1000 euros; all have been important and not a cent of your effort and love was wasted. We have come so far – a land, the foundation digging, bricks, cement, walls, pillars, the roof! Millions of construction materials and thousands of details I knew nothing about – I am not a construction engineer. But I learnt with love and with effort, and the budget for each little thing that was needed for the construction, was prepared with great love.
Here we are today, with the HOCT school almost done. Of course, there are details to be added – windows and doors, a kitchen, a toilet, little things, but compared to the effort undergone so far, this is absolutely fantastic. Let us be proud and let us celebrate.
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