Here we go!

The first chapter began, and the rest is history. My friends always thought I would do well and contribute to the best of My-God-Given nature by doing community development (whatever that means) works. They thought I was tailor-made for the career! I thought about this over and over again. After finishing my high school, I decided to attend a training in community development (CD), just to prove them right, while in Kakuma refugees camp. This was one of many mini-workshops UN agencies offered to the refugees to hone their skills in different fields. After the CD's training, I took an agriculture and peace and coexistence trainings as well. But, the big part of this was taking this course in development. That got me to a position of deciding to teach literacy classes--part of community development! I got fully oriented to behaving messiah-like and always remember "to ask not what my [community] can do for me, but what I can do for my [community]". In this process, I never gotten used to thinking about how my own future career would pay me back. I adapted to new philosophy of contemplating on all means to bring about change on other people's lives. Incidently, there is no better place on earth to do this then in my country of birth, Sudan. Issues of underdevelopment are everyone's door steps. You can see evidence of disease pandemics, prevalence of extreme poverty, illiteracy, environment degradations, and the vast utility of unclean/unsanitized in any corners of Sudan. Now, I am at the verge of changing things for better or for worst. I just got a position with an organization with mission "to empower the disadvantage, increase economic opportunity, and sustain natural resources"! What could be any better! Right now, I am working on programs to bring about realization of this mission within the population of in Southern Sudan.