Last year on Instagram I was shown the channel ULT and there was the post that Lea is looking for volunteers.  Then I wrote to her and we spoke on Skype at relatively short notice and got to know each other. I found the presentation of the website, the Instagram channel and Lea herself totally fascinating. I was also so impressed by the idea of founding an association and going through with it that I said I would definitely like to help. Lea then told me that she was flying to Kenya in November and I said, that’s exactly what I want to do, be active, actively help. So I could help on site and see where the donations go and what the association does on site.

My favorite subjects were languages:  I learned English, French and Italian. I was pretty good at that, too, and I enjoyed it. And my hate subject was philosophy. I had a teacher with whom I didn’t get along at all, I never understood what he wanted and therefore couldn’t really participate. That’s why I didn’t enjoy it at all.

In five years, I will see the school built and the children from the Soweto slums will be taught by male and female teachers. That’s a milestone we should reach in five years. We are a cool, young team. We have great, innovative ideas and projects that we want to implement. There’s definitely a lot more to come, and I’m really looking forward to it.

I can’t think of a specific story right now, but there is one beautiful thing that I took with me from my school days. These are very good friends. We started 5th grade together back then and went through everything together until 13th grade. We are still very good friends today and are a clique of 8 that people knew at our school. It’s nice to still have such friendships, despite the fact that school is over.