Be where you are

Here we are, in Uganda, for our challenge week. Being here is amazing. At last, the results of the hard work we’ve put trough this project are becoming real, tangible.

Here we are, in Uganda, seating all together in this garden of paradise at the Royal Impala Hotel in Kampala. We have a big dream: sharing our experiences, helping each other to transform this beautiful and resourceful country into a peaceful and healthy place to live in. Together with our in-country NGO partners (Red Cross Uganda, Send a Cow Uganda, Grameen Foundation, NACWOLA Uganda) we want to help the Ugandans find their way out of poverty and hunger, their way to a better health and quality of life.

The first thing that surprises you when you discover the people of this Country is their kindness, their extreme generosity. They are talking with their hearts and they mean it! To see how they can give so much, yet having so little, is a real life changing experience for all of us, .

This first day in Uganda, Fiona van Graan (programme director) has given us our first and maybe more important lesson: be where you are, be in the present. Be kind with yourself and you will be more open to the others. Be non judgmental, respectful and you will be more authentic. Be who you are and experience joy or discomfort fully. Be non judgmental with yourself and you will give more.

What a great start!