#justoneperson

[becauseitskimby]

sometimes I have thoughts of just marrying anyone that say they like me....

[wattsblog1984]

Could one friend please copy and repost? We are trying to demonstrate that someone is always listening. ALWAYS 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚 #SuicideAwareness #justoneperson Hey, I love you! Want to talk sometime? I'm here to listen.

[chris9076]

True on soooo many levels. #lifequotes #quotes #justoneperson #fuckem #toomanypeople #facts

[bethsaestetics-blog]

Too true

[jubileepenguin-blog]

Support People

Remember:

Sometimes:  Support = Life

Everytime:    Support = Happiness

Just one word of support can save someone's day. 

Just one sentence can save someones life .

[theseauponwhichifloat]

There are some songs that will come on my shuffle and hit me like a wall.

The Girl by City and Colour just came on and I started tearing up at work. The other day Remembering Sunday came on while I was at home and I actually cried. Yet I always keep listening and I put them on playlists and I guess it seems I can't stop myself and I always want to think about it even if it hurts.

[timeintogo]

Compost

Working as a PCV means holding weekly club meetings, writing grants proposals, and planning conferences and trainings. It also means eating dinner with your neighbors, chatting at the marche, or explaining how to celebrate Halloween. We hear the most about the big PCV projects - building the school or vaccinating the whole village. And those are wonderful, big-number, high-impact projects. They're great.

But being a PCV also means a lot of work with individuals. I feel lucky to have amazing groups to work with - my environmental club, women's groups, environmental association. They make high-impact work easy and fun. But working with individuals can be just as rewarding, and though it may seem small it is sustainable.

Take Koffi. I met him at the marche last fall. We talked about my work here as an EAFS PCV. He wanted to start a home garden. Koffi's fields are right next to the high school, so one morning he came over the garden to find me weeding the cabbage.

He got right to the point. "Remember how you talked to me about compost? I want to make one."

Uh, OK, great! Cut me some slack - at 6:30 on a Saturday morning I hadn't quite woken up yet. He asked for some reference sheets in French on compost ingredients and how to build a pile. I showed him the one the kids had assembled for our school garden and explained how we layered the components on top of each other. I offered to print him out some reference sheets and then visit to help him put it together.

Last Saturday he came banging on my compound door. At 6 am. I mean, I am awake and out of bed by then, but COME ON. It's Saturday! My neighbors know I prefer to be visited after 7. But when an eager farmer comes by to talk about compost and starting a household garden, you put on a smile and talk his ear off.

Sure, it's one person. But he is motivated and has already started the compost pile. That's knowledge gain to behavior change, just like that. It wasn't a fancy training for fifty people. But there's one family who will now have an organic household garden to improve nutrition. And that is an impactful piece of PCV work, right there.

[show-the-real-you]

Why is it so hard to find someone who is willing to try their best to stay in my life. I just need someone, just one person. Is that so much to ask for?