Be The Change!

Having gone through the tour of Kilifi with the Mayor, a few thoughts raged through my mind. First was the typical Human nature response to things that are not going well - a response initiated by Adam who is the father of the blame game. Its my wife he said when asked about his disobedience. She followed suit. Its the serpent........  and so was the blame game introduced in the very fabric of human existence. So, naturally I was looking for who to blame for the disaster I had just seen. (Please if you have not yet read about my day with the Mayor stop right now and read it and also read the report on the schools I visited with him.)

Blame it on the government. Blame it on the society. Blame it on the ..... and the list goes on. However, one fundamental truth is that the blame game never provides a solution. It only aggravates matters. What then is the solution to this crisis? Well there are four areas that I have noted that we need to act speedily. We may disagree on the order so I am not listing them in order of importance. they are all equally important.

First, we need to build new toilets for Kibaoni Primary School before September or else they will be shut. You don't want to Imagine what it will be like to have over a thousand students on the streets!

Next we need to come up with a plan for the handicap children of Kilifi Primary. They need specialized toilets, wheelchairs, Sewing machines, teaching aids and a steady flow of things to work with - cement for making the bricks that they sell for instance.

Then we also need computers. Now getting computers for each school will be the ideal thing but then they do not even have teachers who will introduce these children to computers and so what we are doing is to set up a mega E Learning Centre with 200 computers all connected to the Internet. We have worked out a way in which each school will be entitled to an hour a day between 9am and 7pm. This means that every day, we can teach 2000 students . We will have the teachers and instructors all centralized in this one location. Through this, we will help a whole generation of children become Y2K compliant!

Then of course there is the issue of all these orphans. countless children come to school every morning hungry. Many faint in the course of the day. Their parents are victims who have lost their lives to HIV AIDS and no one in the family is ready to look after them. There is an urgent need for an orphanage that can serve as a hostel for these students. A home where they can be loved and made to feel like part of a family. We invite you to be a part of this too.

So, please before we blame anyone else, let us be the change. Donate computers. Donate sewing machines. Donate wheelchairs. Donate teaching aids. Let us be the change - the answer to someone's prayer. Life is so reciprocal. As we do this, someone somewhere will be the answer to our prayers! God bless.