The hub attracts a range of people with all kinds of different perspectives - men and women, young and more senior, different religions and so on. Its such a tragedy that we struggle to embrace diversity as a human asset rather than constantly seeing it as a threat.
As a general rule when human beings work against one another because of their differences we tend to bring out the primal and more often than not, the awful side of human nature.
When we work together 'because' of our differences (and celebrate diversity) we demonstrate the truly wonderful aspects of being human.
The three girls in these pictures met at the hub and have become really close friends. They come from different cultural and societal perspectives but have come to be totally comfortable and respectful of one another's point of view. They are one single but wonderful example of the above. They travelled with us to Lamu and are now an essential part of the local team as they are absolutely brilliant with computers and keen to learn more.
We had a football match involving the whole team just before we left Lamu. It turns out that these girls are also great at football (despite having limited practice)...trust me, we have bruises to prove it....;)
1 comment:
Hello Gary!
Very interesting post!
India is one example of unity in diversity. We have different languages, religions, food, customs, climate, dresses etc.and yet we live as one.
Yet there are politicians who try to divide the country playing the language card in order to get votes. Sometime they do succeed.
Have a good day!
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