Good Morning all,
As we attempt to understand the loss of our friend Silvanos, we thought it appropriate and helpful to try to have one site where information about gatherings, remembrances and how to support Silvanos's family, his work, and each other can be viewed.
If you would like to post something on this site, you can either do so by making a comment, or by emailing information to bridgetmeigs@gmail.com and I will post it on the blog.
With much warmth and support,
Bridget
2 comments:
In reality I didn't know Silvanos that long or that well, but I felt - and I think he felt - as if we had known each other our entire lives. That was the type of connection that I think many of us had with Silvanos. I feel a tremendous loss of an opportunity to get to really get to know such a kind, caring and passionate man.
I introduced Silvanos to the community of Mikinduri and to Ted Grant, the director of MCOH, in 2006. Though I spent almost 6 weeks working in Mik in 2006, I feel as if that introduction was my greatest accomplishment. I could never have done for MCOH in those 6 weeks what Silvanos has done in the past year and a half. Think of how MCOH as an organization has grown! The community and everyone who met him has lost a great ally and friend.
I am working currently with him on an initiative in Mikinduri to utilize the 5 acre Kinwe site on which the first group of McGill volunteers in 2006 helped to build the current dining hall. I plan to rename this initiative in his honor and to continue to see his work through. I feel as if that is my place in recovering from this tragedy.
Silvanos is a great teacher, a kind person, a loving father and truly knew the meaning of friendship. I feel as if I have lost a brother.
I remember the many heartfelt, and deeply personal conversations that Silvanos and I had in the relatively short time we had together. We both opened up to each other in a manner that would normally take years to develop. I will really miss him and his amazing and infectious smile dearly.
Kwaheri S
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Much of my life has suddenly diminished in color. I suddenly get angry at all the news titles I see, the gossip and the slander. Kenya's election would not even make front page news, Silvanos not even Nairobe news.
In the last two years I have been able to do far too little for Africa and Silvanos, and that harsh fact grates me. Even now I'm afraid to say more, to commit to more, as my pale life marches me a day to the next. I envy those of you who were able to continually return, act, and live in a meaningfully struggle.
I am unsure how I will be changed by this event, but let me change, and maybe a tiniest part of Silvanos' death would serve the purpose he lived for in his life.
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