I Need Africa

Mocha Club, an organization Cliff and I have supported and have had the privilege of working with for a couple of years now, has launched a new campaign today. This campaign reaches me in a place that is hard to describe. Because I know I need Africa.

I feel it in my soul sometimes, when I hear a choir of voices singing. When I look at pictures from my trip. When I remember what it was like to hold the hands of children in a tiny village off a desolate bush road. When I think of drawing my fingers through the dirt and hearing the laughter of tiny voices. When I remember climbing "the hill" to the top of Dar's campus and seeing all of the city in one breathtaking sweep. When I think of the smiles of the students I spent my days with.

Both Cliff and I have seen firsthand the faces and lives full of joy and peace in a land typically thought of as dark and void of life. It is so not that. It is so not anything it's easy to believe it is...

We both recognize that our respective times there with the people of two different countries were more filling for our own souls than we believe we could have ever given.

Anyways, I'll let the campaign speak for itself.