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Its very sad for a parent to realise that they are not capable of taking care of their child's need. This was an opening statement from a mother who was seeking assistance to take her teenage doughter to high school. The girl passed highly but I have to face her and tell her I failed you since I cant keep my end of the burgain.  It was not always like this my mother strugglled single handedly with the 9 of us and made sure we got a decent education and were upright tax payers.  I looked at the Mama and wondered has it come to this? Gone are the days when uncles could volunteer to pay something for their relatives or the church or just any welwisher.  No this is not true there are many more opportunities for our children to persue education than they were before, unfortunately and this is true for this mama, the information is with a select few and these enjoy the benefits of charity while the real beneficiaries oogle in poverty and continue in its cycle.  Take the ma...

Wisely said The quality of what you see depends on the perspective from which you see it; that perspective is entirely up to you. ‎'To find security in conformity is to keep yourself from your full potential' To expect people to treat you nice because you are a nice guy is like to expect a bull not to attach you because you are a vegetarian. If you can’t beat them before you join them you can’t even if you joined them. If you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen. There is much you can learn from the things you cannot change, you can use that knowledge and experience to positively affect those things you can change. The Holy Bible the Holy Quran, the Vedas, the Avesta and all written sacred writings are all pages of one Holy book in God’s Library. The day you die is the beginning of a whole new life Of what use is it to gain the whole world and lose your soul Where on earth is it written that you will die with someone else even marriage vows say death ...

For the last year or so i have been working in Kibera for a peace project that entails bringing together the community based organisations that cary out peace activities in Kibera building thier capacities and pooling them to work together. the challenges of my work not withstanding i have seen great change in the people and particularly the youth. I have seen a side of kibera few know about, a youth that is more engaging, cooperative and equallly aggressive, older men and women who are more cooperative and equally informed and children oh the children aint thy just great. We recently organised a run for peace, dubbed running the race for peace in kibera and engaged Athletics Kenya who used the races to identiify young talented runners to represent the District in the Provincial championships, that in itself was something great for Kibera. Most of those selected did not even know they could run, they were mostly football players. Then yesterday 14th Feb 2010 was a memm...

yesterday it really rained hard here in Nairobi, I was on my way home and as usual no body had planned for the rain so we were dashing from one covered place to another, then came this man who offered to share his umbrella and walk me to my bus stop.........i thought about this and wondered why I had doubted the all providence nature of our God......it was difficult to get a matatu home and as usual they had hiked the fare............a lady with a baby was equally drenched and out of interest and concirn for the baby i asked her where she was going, it turned out we were going to the same destination. she had been waiting for transport home with her baaby for over an hour.......we later waited for another hour and when we eventually got a matatu the fare was one hundred, the lady with the baby only 50..........I remembered the man with the umrella and how he had to go out of his route to bring me to the bus stop and told her, you dont have to go out I will help you out. Her reply...

Every morning in Africa A gazzelle wakes up it knows it must run faster than the fastest lion otherwise it will die Every morning in Africa A lion wakes up it knows it must run faster than the slowest gazzele otherwise it will die it does not matter whether you are a lion or a gazzelle but when the sun gets up you better ger running otherwise you will die