Volunteer A

I found the real meaning of happiness in Kitega community center. Have you asked yourself, How happy are you during your life? Frankly, I used to think that “I am happy but if my parents are richer than now, I will be happier than any others.” But now I say “I am happy and I am the one who has enough blessing from god.” My answer and thinking have totally change after visiting Kitega. Many children, in this moment, starve and suffer from severe diseases. I still remember one girl, a student who studies in Katunguru primary school. Sadly, she can’t hear any beautiful sound in the world. She contracted malaria when she was young, and the disease affected her hearing. My question is this, if she had been born in a developed country, would she have lost her hearing? The answer is most likely no. I didn’t do anything for her, which caused me to feel huge emotional stress during the time I spent in Kitega. Unfortunately, there are many people like this little girl in Kitega. Many families lack money for medicine and even food. In Kitega community, one of my favorite projects was home visiting. I visited the local people and watched their real lives and saw how they lived. Normally, they have 6-8 children per familiy, but their monthly income is less than 5 USD. For me, I really can’t imagine how they can live on that amount. Some houses live under the big electric pole, but they don’t have electric line in their house. In some houses the whole family work in the garden but their family starve because of lack of food. This is because they are tenant farmers. And some families live in mud houses, and even when the sun was shining their house was dark inside. But the most astonishing thing was that even though their conditions are bad, they were very friendly and accomodating. In that moment, I felt that they are really great because even though they live difficult and hard lives, they do their best for visitors. I remember, a one student’s house, they gave us sugar canes. After visiting Kitega