This story is very intriguing. It is a story of the Limitless capacity of the Human being; of powers that we all have lying dormant on the inside of us, waiting for an opportunity to be ignited.
Two Women, Fatu Koroma and Nancy Kanu; both in their late forties and Fatu already a grandmother; from Kontaline and Mayemibana villages. These villages both have a total of 67 houses just outside the country’s capital, Freetown. They sold palm Oil and Agricultural produce to upkeep their families.
Deliberately chosen by the elders in both villages and were flown to India in January 2007. They have never been to school; never been to the country’s capital; never flown in a plane and never travelled so far away from home. They were essentially in a strange land, wearing strange clothes and eating strange foods.
Trained together with women from Bolivia, Afghanistan, Mali, Cameroon etc.. nobody understood their dialects of Temne and Krio. These pressures alone were enough to make anyone run away.
On top of that, learning about electronics and fabricating complicated solar energy parts; identifying components without the written word… only from their colour and learning only with their hands about soldering and installation and establishing a rural electronic workshop to repair and maintain the units in their villages.
Incredibly, this is what they achieved in 6 months. They returned in July 2007 without no paper certificate, but knew more about solar installation than engineering graduates who have gone through 5 years of university education in Sierra Leone.
They set up shop and in two weeks completed the electrification of 67 houses in both villages.
What is the lesson in this story? You have a limitless capacity to be great (Gen 1:28, Phil 4:13); you have powers lying dormant inside you, waiting for an opportunity to be ignited; Acres of Diamonds all around you.
Apply your life, skills and talents to your world. Find a problem around you that you would love to solve; go all out to acquire the necessary skills required to solve this problem. Then get to work and do not stop until you provide the solution for this problem.
The more significant this problem and thus the solution, the greater the returns you receive from your investment in life. This is one secret to greatness. So keep designing and keep bringing to pass, the future you were made to experience, one decision and one action at a time… We join all Sierra Leoneans to give kudos to Safer Future Sierra Leone and their donors for making this happen.
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