Doing a ‘Kenyan’ and making a speech....

So, this past year of living and working in Vihiga has come to an end. I decided a post HAD to be written about an incredible person who I have had the honour of working with, becoming friends with and learning a ridiculous amount from. David Rochus. I salute you!!!!

In pretty much every blog I’ve written I’ve mentioned the royal ‘we’ a lot. That ‘we’ is David and I. The work I have achieved in Vihiga could not have happened without the team work of the two of us. Imagine meeting someone from an entirely different world and being expected to work everyday together to set up a service... yet somehow it couldn’t have been more perfect.

  

We’ve had many a heated discussion on our different views with working, but it’s never affected our friendship and working relationship. Instead, I think it’s meant we’ve both had a lot of opportunities to learn many things.

On all the many days I’ve been frustrated by the various systems/families/colleagues I’ve worked with, David has kept me calm and helped me reflect on it all in a way which has made me learn and not give up.

I’ve told him this before, and I’ll tell him again now... You’re stuck with me forever!!

See you soon...