 In April, my dear friend and ELI co-chair, Ashley Hart, wrote a beautiful blog about turning childhood dreams into realities and what it means to become individuals capable of creating a lasting impact. If you have not read her blog, I encourage you to read hers first because this blog is about the embodiment of that vision.
This July, The Emerging Leaders Initiative embarked on our first trip to Kenya with a full team of young professionals ages 18 to 39. To give some context, ELI was founded under the principle that an organization dedicated to empowering the futures of tomorrow MUST include young people at the table. That is where ELI comes in – to expand our reach, express our concerns, achieve our goals, create impact, and make sure there is always a pathway for young voices to be heard. So, that is our mission. At our core, Crossing Thresholds is about connection and community building. We believe in collaboration – building one team, one community, all of us rising together. On this summer’s trip, we took this philosophy and ran with it, creating the first-ever team that was not only American volunteers but also Kenyan volunteers. In other words, we had young people from Crossing Thresholds combined with young people from two partner organizations: Cheza Cheza, and City Shamba “City Garden”. Together, we built and launched an urban garden to supplement the feeding programs at CT’s schools. We did it! But just as important as the garden, we built a community.
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