The Russian River in California
Hafsa and I have been settling into our office within the offices of the Islamic Networks Group for a few days. The Faiths Act Fellowship officially launched last Thursday, the first day of work for the Fellows. It’s an odd feeling to know that Hafsa and I aren’t only working by ourselves; in cities across the US, UK, and Canada the Fellows are collaborating and building the next step in our work to eradicate malaria deaths. It’s a strange feeling knowing that we are an independent-but-connected portion of the Fellowship; reassuring in that we have a large network to collaborate with, but also sad in that we are thousands of miles away from our dear friends.
I returned from Tanzania only a month ago. In those three weeks, I lived and breathed and laughed and cried with eight other Fellows. In the weeks before heading to East Africa, we had spent two weeks with the whole Fellowship, learning our stories and sharing our experiences. And only two weeks ago the entire Fellowship was living in Chicago and figuring out how to execute our mission.
It was sad leaving the other Fellows at the end of our six weeks of training. These are strong, smart, and dedicated individuals that I have come to trust and love. But I suppose it is helpful to imagine that we have gone from a tightly-concentrated group of social entrepreneurs to a very wide [mosquito?] net that can now do better things on a much larger scale.
We’re all self-directed social entrepreneurs with a mission. We may be scattered around the world, but we know what we have to do. And even though we are separated by many miles and time zones, we are now starting our work. Together.
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