The soils that I drive my strength one was in the colonial Shamba (farm). I remember free skim milk for up to age eleven years. I recall shamba white man transporting us, my mother and sibling, to the concentration camp at Nakuru. How jubilant I was to have a ride from the white man. The trees moved fast, and not long time we reached the concentration camp. The vivid memories:
- The many children and mothers present.
- First night sleeping on the hard cement floor.
- The clean grass well-cut playgroup with swings for kids to play.
The large latrine hole for children to use and pooped on the floor. And at the destination, I had great excitement to see my paternal aunt and her family that I had met before.
In the strange farmhouse, we were left alone with sibling in the middle of nowhere, a mixture of confusion and unknown surrounding. In the empty house in the village, it was sad to have no parents with us to bring us food each day. Being a maid in teachers’ homes, I gained my education, training, and other knowledge to guide my life. The church built my faith in God in Jesus Christ. The marriage increased me numerically and even multiplied. Motherhood blessed me in various dimensions hooking me to many families creating all kinds of emotions; fear and anxiety of being wrong. Grand motherhood marked my advanced age. The widowhood did not stop me from serving the church without excuse as pastor. Living in the US gave me the courage to marry a second time, and an increase in number landing me in the great grandmother.
My takeaway in all these soil types is possible ways to creating the solid soils for the coming generation, a path with ease conditions. The ideal path in my mind- start at the root-a house, garden, water, health, and basic knowhow invested into little boy and girl as they learn how to talk to appreciate life by having parents 100% present in their life.
I can learn my project by contributing what I have first and ask everyone in the global world to add me one ten-cent of a dollar annually to carry my idea out. The global population as of 2020, over seven billion people contributing to my idea. I start with new couples in the twenty-first century-house, garden, water, homeschool, and parents stay together with their kids. And parents and Kids learn together to produce family foods at home, homeschool, and include children in all family actives as they learn talking. The family creating each other early enough instead of parents handing over their responsibilities to other people like teachers, religious people, traditionalists, etc. Thus, creating a new soil totally different from the one we have today and the one I grew.