Catherine Nakalembe

They want to do something meaningful.

But the opportunity to do that something meaningful is,

Literacy is like, sometimes I think about it like breaking rules, being defiant, figuring out things that otherwise would be like, why would you do that?

But it's like, in the end, when it comes to life, it's so meaningful.

It's magical.

Now we have all these dashboards with all these lines where there was zero lines.

And the other thing that I kind of think about is going back to my PhD, I had the opportunity to go figure it out.

And I had the space to learn to figure it out.

And so like that opportunity to learn, to grow, to be able to think and create your own ideas and link them back to the things that matter.

It's like, I think we need more of that.

Like it's so much effort.

It's so much energy.

And it's like, but in the end, it will be worth it.

What gives me hope is the fact that there are so many young people eager and willing to learn and contribute.

The other thing that gives me hope is my ninjas.

I call them ninjas sometimes.

My sons.

Because...

they keep me on my toes.

They ask me questions about stuff.