Monday 19 December 2016

Huye Talking To? Week 12

Week 12 – Thank you and Goodbye

When we leave this project, we leave no regrets, we leave something to remember, so they won’t forget, that we were here.





I can’t lie, this is gonna be a pretty emotional post.

How do I, the same person who struggled to write the first post, sum up, in a few hundred words, how amazing this whole experience has been?






From the moment we first met, both in-country and UK volunteers never expected to become as close as we have. We never expected how challenging this entire experience would be. And we certainly never expected to become the people we are, three months on.





Three months isn’t a long time, it’s a weird amount of time, before leaving the UK I remember people saying ‘3 months is nothing you’ll be back before you know it’ and boy were they right, it's flown by.





I, as well as a few other volunteers, kinda wish we could stay a little longer, now that I’m in tune with the culture, know a bit of the lingo and have got so involved with the work, it hurts to leave.




I’d like to thank a few people, firstly the whole of ICS staff, AMU’s Staff, Jean D’amour, Munezero Clementine, and Mama Jeanne, our team leaders Bryony and Messi, and all the volunteers <3 and lastly you, the reader, whose been with us on this journey over the last 3 months.



The number of lives that the Huye team has impacted over the last few weeks cannot be measured.


With the adults  group, the change that they have created will remain, forever.



With the kids group, the impression they have left, will persist, infinitely.


I’d like to leave you, dear reader, with my favourite quote, and then I’ll log out for the final time.

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”

-   Maya Angelou




Thank you and goodbye.

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