...while you’re busy making other plans, John Lennon sang.
In the past months, I was
planning my life in Kwara. I intended to stay at least till December, I planned
what kind of work I would be doing, I did some repairs in the house. And then,
life came by… While I was so busy planning, other things were happening.
To sum it all up very briefly,
I will leave Nigeria on the 18th of April and move to Cameroon. I
will start working there as the country director for Knowledge for Children, a Dutch-Cameroonian
NGO.
I’m leaving with a lot of
mixed feelings. I will miss Kwara, my friends and colleagues, the people in the
neighbourhood and the NGVP project I have been working in. Nigeria became a bit
of home in the past year. Part of my heart will always be there, like it is
always in Benin and in the Netherlands.
At the same time, I am very
excited about the new position. I talked to a couple of people from this NGO
and it all seems very good. I am excited to work on several topics which I love;
education, HIV / AIDS. I am looking forward to live in a place with a cooler
climate and with a lot of fresh vegetables readily available at the market. I
can’t wait to learn more about the co-financing of projects to guarantee
sustainability. And of course I am curious about living in a new country.
The journey continues!
Keep cool, all will be fine. The moment you step in Cameroon, it will all be one feeling. How to do it in a better way and create impact.
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