Having grown up in Winnipeg’s inner city, raised by a single parent (mother), in a family without a car, never having even visited a farm in Canada, and having just turned 22 (and married only 8 months earlier), I found myself about to take on a key leadership position in rural planning in Botswana. And what the heck was “planning” – be it rural, urban or regional – had never heard of it! Nevertheless, I thought to myself – “I can do that.” Oh, the joys of being a know-it-all in your early twenties!
There’s no question that the three years in Botswana changed our lives in so many ways. Besides introducing me to my profession, planning, which I dedicated much of my career to, it was in Botswana where I also had the good fortune to became a parent for the first time – talk about life-changing! Looking back some 44 years later I’m struck by all that I went through and survived during my early twenties while in Botswana; including:
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June 2019
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