Community Engagement
NICHE Sustainable Solutions supports community outreach/engagement programmes through NICHE-Ability:
Our commitment(so far) is:
When youâre going to have a baby, itâs like planning a fabulous vacation trip â to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. Itâs all very exciting.
After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The flight attendant comes in and says, âWelcome to Holland.â
âHolland?!?â you say. âWhat do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! Iâm supposed to be in Italy. All my life Iâve dreamed of going to Italy.â
But thereâs been a change in the flight plan. Theyâve landed in Holland and there you must stay.
The important thing is that they havenât taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. Itâs just a different place.
So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.
Itâs just a different place. Itâs slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after youâve been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look aroundâŠ. and you begin to notice that Holland has windmillsâŠ.and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.
But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy⊠and theyâre all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say âYes, thatâs where I was supposed to go. Thatâs what I had planned.â
And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away⊠because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss.
But⊠if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didnât get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ⊠about Holland.
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