Two years ago, a friend of mine told me about ULT and since then I sponsor two kids. The concept, the transparent work and the young team caught me. This summer (2022) I was unsure what to do during vacation and had the idea to volunteer for ULT in Nairobi. There I met the kids and got insights into the organization’s work with all the fantastic people behind it. When I saw that ULT needs support in the PR section I volunteered directly.

I had two favorite subjects: Biology and music. Both became more or less my job. I didn’t have a particular subject I hated, but there were several subjects I didn’t really know why we had to learn this in school and thus my motivation was rather low. These were Economy and Law or Religion for example. I was quite bad in English; I learned the language after school when I was studying abroad.

Phew, five years is a long time! Seeing in retrospective what has happened in the past five years I see great progress! I am convinced that our school is built, and the first kids enjoy the lessons. More and more kids are sponsored and can go to school and the ULT Happy Club is established. However, I follow the development of the world with great concern and assume that there is much to do for us and other organizations. But our team is growing, and I am confident that many projects will come up and make this world a bit better.

I was good at natural science subjects while a dear friend was struggling a bit. On the other hand, she was very talented in handicrafts and concentrated on crocheting at that time. With that some kind of symbiose developed between us: she was allowed to copy my lab reports in chemistry class and was crocheting many beautiful things for me in return. I still have some of these pieces, like the beanie I’m wearing in the photo! Shortly before our final exams, she not only copied the results of my report (we still did that by hand), but unfortunately also my name. That led to a personal conversation with our teacher… But we rocked that too!

Shout-out: This lovely friend is the same person that brought me to ULT – thanks Sina!