Thinking about Zamland?

I'm writing an introductory letter for our SWSC volunteer guide, and ya...this is what I came up with and I couldn't finish it, or edit it....and it just came out like this....some preliminary thoughts and some time to reflect on this little organization of ours. It needs some work, but this is the first draft:


Mwaiseni (Welcome) to SWSC!

SWSC has been more than three years in the making, and has been in the hearts and minds of people around the world for years and years before. We’re so glad that you found us, because your input, your time, your energy and most importantly your heart and the hearts of everyone else involved in this, is what makes us move forward. We may be small in number, but our true intentions are what should bring us enormous fame. This is because our true intentions are about achieving an equal opportunity for all. Our goal is not an easy one, but we believe that as long as we ATTEMPT to make change always supported by love, than we may never go too far off track.

Years ago, Kim and I ventured from Canada to Africa in order to grab our own perspective of what Africa is. We were not satisfied with the media’s continual image that flashed a bleak and negative picture of a continent forever in turmoil. Although we were sure we would find a positive side to the disarray that the media portrayed; what we have found instead is a unique individualistic experience; one that cannot be multiplied. This experience is neither positive nor negative. What initially appealed to us about Zambia was the colour. There seemed to be colour in the landscape and in the people, and this colour made everything magical. However, like every single place in the world, the colour sometimes fades and when it does, you begin to know something or someplace or someone for what it truly is. SWSC is about an experience called life, and when we started Same World Same Chance, we wanted to get living it. We wanted life to mean something, and so we went about it in the only way we knew how to do it.

That is exactly what we are inviting you to have. Wherever you may be in the world, we are asking you to take a second look and while you’re at it, beg a few questions from the world, about the way the media wants you to believe it. What we have learned is that, change is possible. What we have learned is that, you don’t have to go far to work towards it. What we have learned is that, SWSC has become an organization that embodies every single good thing that we aspire to have about us.