Smile! You’re on camera!

When I recently came back in the office after having visited Somalia, a colleague asked me: “What is it like? Is it really that bad as the pictures show it to be?” I was really puzzled by her question, so she asked me something else: “What drives you to travel and work for the needy: your heart, your mind or the scenes you see on TV?”

I gave her a simple answer: all three. We have to work on the mind and heart in order to let them believe in humanity and possibilities before the minds and hearts see devastating scenes of famine and drought. In my opinion, if any of us would feel even a tenth of what we see on TV or in newspapers- that level of desperation and hunger and loss of dignity- we would never sit down until we have saved all the people in need.

The heart is the one driving the mind, however the mind is directing our heart where to go. Where people feel the image and not just watch the image, that’s when help is on its way.

Let us take a moment and feel the images, rather than just watching them. Thank you.