I, Aja Humm your host of "The Pill of Success podcast" am delighted to share this conversation with the world today.🌍 Be sure to bring a tissue.🥰
Thanks to everyone that have made this connection and friendship possible.
Sharon, Marianna, Frans and more...
Christine once said that "We are all in this together. We are just one big family in a Global Village". That really touched me to tears.
I so much love that. So now dear Village, enjoy listening and hopefully, you also will get new insight and inspiration to pass-it-on. Whatever good you choose to pass on! 😃👊🏻✅
In this heartfelt ❤️ and deep episode, Christine Vulimu shares her strong, heroic story and her mission in life that is to get the world to:
One girl and one woman at the time can change a whole community.
Never hurt another woman.
Empowering communities through the education of girls, so they can change the culture of child marriage and FGM from the inside. Helping women in their daily struggles to meet ends and end domestic violence.
How she came through education.
I knew in my heart I wanted to be a teacher.
Marriage was not the safe haven I had foreseen...
I have to take care of my children with my twins that are one healthy and one mentally challenged.
Something took me to the general hospital that was a free family planning clinique. (Not free anymore!)
Just sitting on the bench outside the hospital.
I see my former principle from my high school.
In two weeks you go check if your name is there...and it was!!
I had to leave my children behind for 2 years. Almost 700 km away and told the father “I am going to school”. No discussion.
I made myself busy so I wouldn't hear the screams by missing my children on my inside because if I did I would not be able to focus and succeed.
My first job was in the slum.
The story about the boy that had a crushed thumb.
The day I finished my probation I left.
I got a job in a private school and worked there for 25y.
Every year I was meeting different children.
Every single year I would write a personal note to every child so that in my mind I am understanding all the individuals sitting behind the desk.
We would be able to bond. And the parents bought in because of the personal note.
I would visit every single home and from there I would know if there is a special need for them.
To all the children: I am interested in you as a person.
When you get to this school we are equal
Nobody is above another person
You are sitting where you are sitting because you begin with the letter A. We are positioning you alphabetically, not by your performance.
Then I looked for what to award for the children so that everybody has something great for them.
Every year we would pick a gift for one student.
The note: You will surprise yourself.
“Teacher, see I have surprised myself”
Every year I randomly pick a girl to help. Otherwise she will be married away.
The story about the girl Dockas.
I get to be OK with what is.
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From an article about Christine and a talk she gave in The Daily Nation in Kenya:
"I believe it’s time we flushed out our emotional baggage and built healthy families so that we’ll be able to face the world and fulfill our destinies.
Usually, whenever a guest speaker stands up to share, we assume they’ll read out a typed speech so bias creeps in, then selective attention, and possibly a catnap, but this one was different.
It was one of those talks, not speeches, that touch the core and provoke you to go out and make a difference.
Mrs. Christine Vulimu, a teacher for more than 27 years, shared on “emotional energy”. What struck me about Christine was her frankness.
She hid nothing about herself and bared it all for us to understand how emotional backlog affects parenting.
“I have taught sexually and physically abused children, some whose thumbs were crushed because some coins went missing from home,” Christine said. “One time, I had a boy in my class whose uniform was always dirty, and when I enquired, he said his mum left with a man together with his little sister, and they abandoned him because he was ‘too big’. There had been no water at home for seven months because it had been disconnected.”
