Lighting one candle

I really would love to be part of your forum to interact and exchange ideas. I am passionately involved in youth/public health related issues. My wife & I are engaged in a project that selected youth from 10 villages to undergo comprehensive training in farming, life skills, leadership skills etc for 6 months. The trainees will be given certificates. They in turn will organize and lead clubs in their own villages. They will focus on small scale business, farming etc.

We trust that this cycle will impact the other villages to mobilize the youth by imparting proactive thinking skills. The project focuses on challenging the trainees to move away from the reactive thinking paradigm to a proactive, creative paradigm. We believe that "It is better to light one candle than cursing the darkness” - a Chinese proverb. We will make things happen by lighting that "one" candle of hope in spite of all the negative thinking which often cripples people more than the HIV/AIDS crisis these days.