Catherine Nakalembe

We meet in one country.

The country's the priority.

We focus on their monitoring, help them kind of get up to speed, and then others learn and share from their experiences.

And I was doing them as rotational, and they're amazing.

It is not possible to do that anymore.

Yes, we can do things on Zoom, but the connection and the problem solving and the generosity that happens when we're in rooms with people is very different.

That everybody walks away empowered.

And what I love to do in these particular sessions is I get the countries that have done something to present it from their perspective and what they were able to do.

Because it's easy for me to say you can do X, Y, Z. Very different from

how that works when the real person who needs to do it does it.

And so when they explain it from their perspective, but it arms you to be like, I can do it too.

And so I'm overwhelmed by the fact that like those pathways are closing.

That's kind of like the biggest, saddest thing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I keep going.

There's so many people willing to share and give and collaborate.

There is so much hope and so much perseverance, so much resilience.

In the storm I mentioned that happened in Kenya, the hailstorm, people sent photos from there, from where it's happening.

And one of the agents said,