Irene Amuron from the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre opened day 2 of the Africa Diaologue Platform and surprised all of us and wrote an inspirational poem on day 2:

Poems from Africa - The Journey from Yesterday

"The journey from Yesterday
The Dialogue Platform opens with pomp
A great poem with a call for us to be the change
Lots of speakers from Kenya to Europe across Asia
The call for effective Anticipatory Action grows louder and louder
From Phoebe – beaming with Joy
Opening the doors for the next 3 days
The journey starts
I sit back in awe as the 4th Africa Dialogue Platform jeep starts its journey
With our first stop at Florine’s – a token to create a conducive environment to support anticipatory action – does she give us!
A stronger commitment from governments, partners and donors to enable scale up is the loud cry from Cyril
To this – we hear beautiful sounds from German – oh despair not – we come with commitment to support the paradigm shift
With hands in the air – we jubilate with communities in the Seychelles as we sing and celebrate community engagement
More guests join us with H.E Ole raining the flag to leverage technology and involve communities in long term planning
In celebration, we take a group photo and play and learn
Learning do we continue all through the parallel session with neighbors and friends
In communion we end the day – promising to take courage, commitment, and leadership for effective Anticipatory Action
The Future for Anticipatory Action is getting brighter and brighter – hope you have your shades on"