The Motivation

To sit down and put into words the why of this project is extremely difficult. However, chalking the task up to ‘impossible’ and leaving it at that, is a cop-out and does nothing to move this project forward. You may wonder then, why we are even bothering to tell you this. The answer is simple: to warn you that our words are inadequate; they are not even close to explaining why, but if we don’t try…what’s the point?

To understand how those of us working on this project feel about Pallisa, you must think of the singularly most exhilarating, joyful, tearful, frustrating, motivating, angering, amazing, difficult and incredible experiences you’ve ever had and then imagine all of those happening at exactly the same time. Then imagine, in the middle of all of that, being filled with the most uplifting and heart-burstingly-beautiful love you have ever been blessed to feel. This kind of emotion is so indescribable we just had to make up a phrase in an attempt to convey what it actually feels like.

What it all boils down to in the end, however, is love. That is the best answer to the question why we can give you; we are doing this because we are filled with love. Love for the people f Pallisa, love for Uganda, love for Africa, love for the global community, love for you, love for each other, love for humanity and all its imperfections. And we believe that this small, unassuming four-letter word is the most powerful tool we have to change the world. If we act out of love, first and foremost, we are capable of anything and everything.