I love Mondays. My energy is always very high and we work with good energy at HOCT (and also in my other daily activities). I’ve never had a Sunday blues, because on Sunday afternoons I usually prepare my work files and tables neatly and colorfully and I elaborate my weekly strategy, which already gives me a boost. 

When we start working on Monday morning, our energy is high and we all know what to do. 

Many children have come to receive their food today at HOCT, after we have brought the heavy shopping to the office. When I look at how thin my African colleagues are, I do wonder how can they lift such a heavy load. I once saw my colleague Mugoya carry 30 kg over his head. I mean… how? Yeah, alright 🙂

Some of you usually ask me why the children do not ever smile in photos. This idea was completely absent from this culture – smiling in photos, or taking photos, or sometimes… just smiling, because when life is so hard, it is difficult to smile. But lately, they started to smile, spontaneously; we do not force them in any way, as you well know. And when a child smiles with sincerity, we can all see it and their long-distance parents are overjoyed. Just last week I saw Odele Meddy smiling widely – and I think it was an absolute first for him.

I love loading photos at the end of my day, to show you all the fruit of people’s kindness. I am not posting this to my merit, but to the merit of all the good and wonderful people that offered a little something to feed a child, to do a good deed in this wounded world.