Mentorship-The Journey So Far

When it came to the mentorship, I was overjoyed when I received an email notifying me of the final match and that the very person I chose accepted to be my mentor. I was like “YES!” am not dreaming anymore. I was nervous and excited at the same time.

The meeting day came and anxiety took over in as something kept telling me that it would be hard to start up the conversation and all that. NO!! I was wrong and I had been wrong all along. The meeting was fun and exciting as I felt like we had known each other since childhood.

Arrey Echi is a very beautiful, selfless soul as she is welcomed me with open arms. She is very flexible, intelligent, empathetic, loving, understanding, resilient and everything one can find in a person like her. I remember we had scheduled to meet for an hour first time but we went beyond the set time and all our other meetings have been going beyond the one hour. She has also made it possible to meet any other day in case one of us has been busy on the agreed day.

The meetings have been over four times already and at each meeting, we have a topic which we have selected at the previous meeting and handle that exhaustively and even have time for personal time to talk about things outside the mentorship which is really helping me. For example, we have already discussed about registering my organization, then having a Facebook page of the organization and how to go about fund raising something which I have to work on at the beginning of the year as it is very crucial for my work to expand and reach more women and teen mothers.

I cannot say that I have regrets for any of the time I have spent with Arrey and even just the mere decision of choosing her as my mentor. I have learnt so much in this almost two months and I feel like we have been meeting for the past 6 months.

Arrey, you are really a blessing and I thank you for accepting to travel this road with me and I know you will still continue to hold my hands even after this program.

Much love and appreciation.