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WE-MADE-A-STEP

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Yes, we made a step.  A step not only of courage and wit, but more, a step of faith.  We will be honest with you, as we promised to be from the onset.  When we set out to officially team up as SquadGoalsKe , we anticipated much, but little of the thrill we are now experiencing. I wouldn't say we had put much thought to it, neither any structures nor buffers.  We had been great friends. We had so many common interests. We loved the whole idea of pulling effort and resources together. After all there would be something for everyone. At the least, we would have a platform  to be useful to society, probably a chance to redeem our fast passing lives. So we, essentially just jumped in. All too excited .   We have been sitting here, In this meeting room, thirty minutes now. Seven beautiful young women. Our clients will be ready for us anytime now. No one is saying anything. The atmosphere is tangibly tense. There seems to be a lot to be said. But who will say it? And
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Courtesy  Squad Goals Ke. Is an initiative by seven young Kenyan ladies in their early twenties. We are friends who technically met in church and have grown together for at least four years now. Undoubtedly, our love for Jesus has been our principal uniting force.  We have served together in church,  done many events together, some of us gotten the privilege of being in the same college, and also done charity together. We have had ours highs and lows, like every other group of friends  . However, we have learnt to trust God to keep us together through it all.  Squad Goals Ke,  as an initiative,  is about friends coming together with the common goal of developing one another. Every young person is most likely in a group of peers-friends or otherwise. The question however is,  of what value is that group,  first to the individual members and to the society? Besides the hangouts, sleepovers, eat-outs, events etc, what more is there for the friends in terms of value addition? D