this is an excerpt from wan xin's email. she just finished chairing the NLDS for AIESEC in Cameroon, and is about to embark on her Management Traineeship soon.
"I just arrived in my city after chairing the conference. The NLDS was great, and I have had a very rewarding chairing experience here, being able to inspire many to pursue their dreams in life, and being inspired by the delegates' HUGE vision! The delegates are mature and aspiring. We had power cut during the opening plenary, food cut due to OC budget constraint (there was one day we had no lunch!), and lots of delay as Cameroonians are not really time conscious. Nonetheless, the delegates continue to wait, to dream big, to keep thinking what they can do, and what is their future.
I am amazed by the high quality life they are having now, despite the almost incomparable material life here. The roads are not tarred, power cut happens all the time, water is yellow, no fan in the room, no shower head for bathing, 4 person on the same bed, no internet and no computer. Yet the members are so driven. There was one night during their national planning where it was raining so heavily and loudly and the power was cut for hours. The members simply continued in the dark with the help of one lamp, all the way till 11pm.
If it fits into the national plan, I would really wish to have a Singapore-Cameroon bridge programme, to equalize the material inequality. For example, if we can collect second hand laptops or computers in Singapore and send them here. The LCs have no computer at all, and it's really affecting their effectiveness. And the members are striving very hard and difficultly to attend conferences because they have no money. If there are members interested in this and if it fits our year plan, I guess having such projects will really let everyone visualise the positive impact we have in society.
Love from Cameroon,
Wan Xin"
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