Ndinini (Danini) Kimesera Sikar

The thing is we are losing that completely and we are losing it here in Africa.

We are losing it in the modern townships.

I live in an area in Arusha called Jiro where you have like a neighbor on this side, on that side, and you never actually talk to this neighbor.

But if you go back to Maasai land,

where I come from, you meet this whole community, which knows where your children are, what they're doing, what they're capable of.

what they need help with.

So as far as happiness is concerned, village.

I mean, I can never even tell you how much I loved being in Mass Island when I was a child.

It was like everyone loves you, but most of all, you have this loving family.

And then you have all these other people who protect you.

You know, the happiness was just something, you know, something people take for granted.

But I remember that very well.

And then you have other things that makes life better for children.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's very interesting how what we do or what we love, first of all, they hate it or they don't like it.

But at the end of the day, they realize how important it is.

And my son, even though I still think he's very young, he's 20, and he will like come straight home and say, you know, after one day, I am just going to stay here one night and then I'm going to my grandmother.

And he goes there and he helps them with water.

He helped with exactly the same thing that I used to do.

And he enjoys it.