
The 9 biggest, positive changes I’ve seen in development in Africa in 25 years
“I never could have imagined that my four daughters would all be in school,” said Nonkuta, a 32-year-old Maasai mother of six.
“I never could have imagined that my four daughters would all be in school,” said Nonkuta, a 32-year-old Maasai mother of six.
I met an extraordinary woman in the maily Congolese Rwamwanja Refugee Settlement in Western Uganda whose story has stayed with me ever since.
During my 20 year tenure at Lifeline Energy, I’ve travelled to 31 of Africa’s 54 countries. This has meant sleeping up to a third of any year on a mattress that I didn’t buy. And plenty of nights where that mattress wasn’t exactly a Sealy-Posturepedic. These include a house without windows or doors in the Sahara Desert…
I never imagined a point in my life where I would have the ability to travel across the globe and speak with organizations affecting people’s lives at such a profound level. Yet, that’s exactly where I found myself this past July…