Africa

By Elizabeth Turner

I step off the plane
and feel the cool air
I am in Africa
I see all the children
running in the streets
I am in Africa
I see all the people that live
in the dark-brown mud huts
I am in Africa
I help give the light,
so they can learn more
I am in Africa
I go every year
to have the experience of a lifetime
I love Africa


Elizabeth Turner is the daughter of Rev. Eric & Charlene Turner and has been a participant in most Solar Light for Africa Youth Mission trips, beginning in 1999, when she was 10 years old. She wrote this poem in 2003, at the age of 14.