One of my favorite animated movies is Ratatouille, a movie about a rat and a clumsy orphan boy. In the movie, Remy the rat dreamed to be a chef someday like his idol Auguste Gusteau, but all odds were against him—a detestable little rat. Remy became separated from his family and started to live in […]
Dreams can be reborn – sometimes a little different than expected. When I was about 7 years old, I had a bad allergic reaction to some food I ate and my skin was breaking out with a rash. My mom took me to a hospital some four miles away from our home. While at the […]
How the past can make or break us. Years back, McDonald had put out a really neat commercial. In the commercial, there were two boxers. One of them was getting hammered and was about give up when his coach reminded him of something that happened in the past. The coach told him, “Remember when you […]
The journey of one touched by many With the child mortality rate of about 19 percent, many Zambian children were not expected to survive past the age of 5. 2 out of every 5 children had no chance of ever setting foot in a classroom. Life was a dead end. I was like a little […]
What changed my life is not what my father said, it’s what he did. I was born and raised in a shanty compound east of the capital city of Zambia. Kalingalinga was one of the poorest communities in Lusaka. An average worker made about $30 a month. Poverty, crime, diseases, witchcraft, and prostitution were rampant; […]