2017. he was a small boy, up to my shoulders, with a dream to become a doctor and a look full of hope.

I would bend down to kiss him on the forehead, and he would be ashamed, because emotions are rarely expressed there. I once asked someone why this is so, and they told me that children learn to hide their emotions early on because they hear too many times that there is nothing to eat, so they become quiet – so that it hurts mom less when she has to say that there is no food.

Kevin – Putokaz za Afriku

Over the years, I taught Kevin that a hug is a shelter of love, and a kiss on the forehead is a blessing. They give him wings to make his dreams come true. I melt every time he says mammy, and he swells with pride every time I say son.

My child has grown, now he bends his head for a kiss on the forehead. And here we are, in 2022, me in the same tunic, grateful to heaven for new life examples, proud that he successfully finished high school, waiting for the results of the national exams, so that his dream becomes reality and he enrolls in medicine.

He told me a long time ago: “I pray every day that you will be healthy and live to see what a good man I will become.” I cry when I remember that… from emotion, from pride, because he is already a wonderful man, my child, my Kevin.

Kevin – Putokaz za Afriku

Kevin – Putokaz za Afriku