I have been put in charge of looking after the Africa market, and before you gasp and say how awesome it is, it's not, it's actually one of the company's smallest markets, and I basically spend half of my time writing emails or responding to emails from South Africans everyday.
Nonetheless, Africa is now become very much part of my work-life, which is part of my life.
And then there's the whole Kony 2012 campaign that everyone shared and commented on Facebook.
And then the Watoto Children's Choir from Watoto Child Care Ministries in Uganda came to our church and turned every dry eye into fountains of tears with their song and dance and stories and pleas for prayer and support. Call it a marketing campaign or emotional manipulation, it was moving enough to make me buy a nice pen and a scarf to support their ministry.
But all this has also tickled a desire to actually go and visit Africa one day - particularly Central Africa, particularly Uganda's Watoto village. The prospect of seeing the future generations of Africans being provided with healthcare, shelter and more importantly, EDUCATION, raising up God-fearing & benevolent leaders of the future, is enticing me to take a week off, leave my make-up and work clothes and iPhone behind, and do something really constructive.
We'll see.
