Kireka Concern

NEW YEAR NEWS

noreply@blogger.com (Ndelo) — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:21:00 +0000

COMPUTER TRAINING

The computers and Internet have been the best and probably the cheapest means of communication tool to link the world together. People learn what is in the next world just by mere computer and Internet! There has been reading, writing, seeing and even hearing because of this Internet and computer technology, this every body needs though looks to be not affordable by all, we as a community are trying to make sure that the youths who are within us get at least the basics of this computer and internet knowledge.

We are glad to let you know that 2010 will be a very busy year than ever before as we shall contact many community activities, right from our core activities like: computer training, art and craft making and learning, tailoring, music dance and drama and story book readings for the children between 8 to 16 years.
So far we have begun computer training both for our member children and non members. They are learning how to use MS office documents, and internet such as emails, and other internet related search. Our main goal here is to help those children who can not access computers at their schools access here because most schools in Uganda don’t have computer labs and always tend to teach only theory or don’t teach at all and yet we are living in a changing world. Not only school children but also those school drop out or those who did not attend at all because we believe every body can learn.

Life in Africa Kireka is also still continuing with its craft making and learning, we hope to do this along side tailoring that is targeting the child mothers. At the Acholi IDP (Internally displaced persons) camp, young girls produce at tender ages and end up at the stone quarry. We want to restore their hope by giving them life skills. Thanks to Corry, (sp) where ever you are for the sewing machines.

Though we have had the idea of music dance and drama, we have also been inspired by Balley Dance school and the students of New York University who whenever they come have to invite some of our community children to practice and perform with them. Big thanks to Madam Jill of Maker ere university for always alerting us about such a big event! This has made our children to love music dance and drama and am glad that one of our children has been selected to attend Saturday’s lesson at Balley Dance School. And with their constant scholastic material gifts to our children, this time instead of distributing all among themselves, we are setting a library so that other children may borrow and also read.

YOU CAN PULL THEM OUT OF MUD!

noreply@blogger.com (Ndelo) — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:04:00 +0000

You will realize that the primary reason for the birth of this blog is to mediate between the community masses like Kireka for that matter who would have not perhaps have an opportunity to express their ideas and thought about what is affecting their lives and how to pull them from the mud they are stuck in! As the saying goes … Better to surfer than to die, after all chances are never only to the dead!! Life in Africa Kireka community was wondering how to overcome the challenges of economic survival mush as they are so rich in their handcraftness. Basic needs of life has been the question of the day, Thanks to Evvy Bryning who saw that there is need for Community uplifting and had good talks with http://ugandabeads.com/ that came to their rescue and now working hand in hand to see that the community’s standard of living improves.

So far thirty women from Acholi quarters Kampala are involved in the making of the beads that Uganda beads markets and sends them money back. This is just five months since the commencement of their campaign and besides that, twenty orphan children have been enrolled in school. This is a very big development in a very short period of time. Many thanks to the Uganda beads team for bringing hope to the communities and to those shopping; you are making big impacts in our community.

Internet communication workshop

noreply@blogger.com (Ndelo) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:42:00 +0000

Its just three days since LiaK (life in Africa kireka) in conjuction with Liaf (life in africa foundation carried out internet training workshop to community leaders. Our primary aim of existance is to uplift the unfortunate grassroot communities through internet.

There has never been possible to linkup with the global communities until internet came into being, but still up now other communities are inaccesible online much as they would have alot to share both locally and internationaly and for that reason,Life in Africa is coming up to organzise internet workshops targeting community leaders or community members.
Check on the photos taken during the workshop

Back to my root

noreply@blogger.com (Ndelo) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:26:00 +0000

Hello every body, it has been a little longer since I Posted some thing on my blog, it has been more of offline activites, Am back to update you on all the new things about our kireka center. Thank you those who have been following

Another way foreward

noreply@blogger.com (Ndelo) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:25:00 +0000

As one of the steps Liak is taking to improve the life of community members, it has written a proposal for a grant that if succeeds would help employ small section of its members, check it out here.
http://www.ned.com/group/lia-global/ws/lia_kireka_small_grants_application/

and see how you can help.

Kireka and plans

noreply@blogger.com (Ndelo) — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:31:00 +0000

Liak computer and technology;
One of our primary activities has been computer training and has remained the same because without it, communication becomes a barrier more so with the global communities. With advancement of technology, time has come that every house hold should have computer literate to ease computer related knowledge. As it has been the case, life in Africa Kireka members few of them have had chance to learn this new technology much as the door has ever been opened for but perhaps due to other commitments. Now that many liakireka members who missed the chance to get the basics has learned the fruits of computer knowledge, and regardless of age every member wants to take learning computer as priority. With this interest of the members to learn, there is an idea of opening it for even non members that eventually there is hope to open up community computer learning center. As we hope for this, it will require some body not only with experience in that field but also profession in related not only to give basics but computer knowledge. Our community is lacking this kind of a person who would like to volunteer in this field. If some body is equipped with computer knowledge, is another way of making some body self reliance.

Liak Craft for development;
Every other day every thing is becoming technical, even what some body has already known, new fashion comes and people get fed up of the old styles. Our members have been so much on paper beads and it seems the global market is flooded with the same fashion styles of products that may not only be selling for the cause but also value for money. We at liak (life in Africa Kireka strive to look for a way of coming with new products be it from the same materials or totally a different thing like shopping bag that its raw material shall be wax, dye and some clothing materials. This we hope should go alongside with tailoring targeting the most disadvantaged woman and the widows who shall be equipped with skills. Anybody out there with this kind of skill and would like to help in anyway s/he can to make our dreams alive shall be of great importance to this kind of community. Below is quilts made up of old T shirts, if you didnt know what to do with old T shirt, send them and we make something new.

Liak community children:
Life in Africa Kireka, s 100 children Saturdays nutrition club has been reviewed by the members that since getting the fund is not very easy, and yet there is a lot more essential needs, the community is on the view that whoever would want to help these kind of kids can make interms of tuition or scholastics/uniform and other necessary school requirements. And as they continue with their Saturday programs that include music dance and drama, art and crafts and here the kids do painting of peace tiles whereby it carries what they want to communicate to who feel concerned about their future. You may choose to sponsor a kid through making purchase of what they make by themselves like the peace tiles. The kids still lack the costumes for their drama and every drama is interesting when the presenters look uniform. Much as they try to do it well but still without costumes it makes it too local. Thanks to the ballet modern dance school who performed with them at national threat in conjunction with students from Stanford University. It was a nice evening show, thanks to them for the gift to the kids and also their support through shopping at our gallery. Below is the peace title workshop

Liak community startup loan
One other thing dragging communities into poverty is where to start from, much as you may have the idea that can lead you to success. A well established community would be the best area for those who have some money and want to give inform of loans to transform people’s way of life. They say experience is the best teacher, some liak members have had loans from kiva that just like any other business, some succeeded in their plans and some didn’t, and since we were in the transition that calumniated into life in Africa Kireka from life in Africa foundation, there was need for break to see what went wrong and how to make it work better and I think time is ripe for things to work better. There are some wonderful members with good loans plan but they can not access those loans, being one of the community’s programs, any body out there thinking the same way but had not seen which community to contact about it, there you go. is one of the best the then borrower who would want loan again.

ASSUMPTIONS OF BIRTH DATES

noreply@blogger.com (Ndelo) — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:44:00 +0000

History tells that December 25 was popularized as the date for Christmas, not because Christ was born on that day, but because it was already popular in pagan religious celebrations as the birthday of the sun. But could December 25 be the date of Christ's birth? According to Christina religious education, they say that before the gospel, there was gospel; does it mean that before the birth of Jesus Christ, 25th December has been celebrated? Like moon for the Muslims, perhaps sun for the Christians but what makes the difference is that the sun is hot and the moon is cold but both seems to be shining 12 hours that geographers call it the rotation of the earth.

"Lacking any scriptural pointers to Jesus’ birthday, early Christian teachers suggested dates all over the calendar. Clement...picked November 18. Hippolytus...figured Christ must have been born on a Wednesday...An anonymous document[,] believed to have been written in North Africa around A.D. 243, placed Jesus’ birth on March 28" (Joseph L. Sheler, U.S. News & World Report, "In Search of Christmas," Dec. 23, 1996, p. 58).

A careful analysis of Scripture, however, clearly indicates that December 25 couldn't be the date for Christ's birth. Here are two primary reasons:
First, we know that shepherds were in the fields watching their flocks at the time of Jesus' birth (Luke 2:7-8). Shepherds were not in the fields during December. According to Celebrations: the Complete Book of American Holidays, Luke's account "suggests that Jesus may have been born in summer or early fall. Since December is cold and rainy in Judea, it is likely the shepherds would have sought shelter for their flocks at night" (p. 309).

Similarly, The Interpreter's One-Volume Commentary says this passage argues "against the birth [of Christ] occurring on Dec. 25 since the weather would not have permitted" shepherds watching over their flocks in the fields at night.

Second, Jesus' parents came to Bethlehem to register in a Roman census (Luke 2:1-4). Such censuses were not taken in winter, when temperatures often dropped below freezing and roads were in poor condition. Taking a census under such conditions would have been self-defeating. Its also true that most people don’t know their birth dates perhaps the parents did not keep track of the exact dates and months, in our culture, our forefathers used to match birth dates with events or seasons …. For example I gave birth when Obama was campaigning in Chicago :) you wonder how many times Obama campaigned in there to fix this new baby born birth date? Others say when the “mabira” give away was in high gear and the demand for sugar was very high for sugarcane to be planted.

Given the difficulties and the desire to bring pagans into Christianity, "the important fact then which I have asked you to get clearly into your head is that the fixing of the date as December 25th was a compromise with paganism" (William Walsh, The Story of Santa Klaus, 1970, p. 62).

If Jesus Christ weren't born on December 25, does the Bible indicate when He was born? The biblical accounts point to the fall of the year as the most likely time of Jesus' birth based on the conception and birth of John the Baptist.
Since Elizabeth (John's mother) was in her sixth month of pregnancy when Jesus was conceived (Luke 1:24-36), we can determine the approximate time of year Jesus was born if we know when John was born. John's father, Zacharias, was a priest serving in the Jerusalem temple during the course of Abijah (Luke 1:5). Historical calculations indicate this course of service corresponded to June 13-19 in that year (The Companion Bible, 1974, Appendix 179, p. 200).

It was during this time of temple service that Zacharias learned that he and his wife, Elizabeth, would have a child (Luke 1:8-13). After he completed his service and traveled home, Elizabeth conceived (verses 23-24). Assuming John's conception took place near the end of June, adding nine months brings us to the end of March as the most likely time for John's birth. Adding another six months (the difference in ages between John and Jesus) brings us to the end of September as the likely time of Jesus' birth.

Although it is difficult to determine the first time anyone celebrated December 25 as Christmas Day, historians are in general agreement that it was sometime during the fourth century. This is an amazingly late date. Christmas was not observed in Rome, the capital of the Roman Empire, until about 300 years after Christ's death. Its origins cannot be traced back to either the teachings or practices of the earliest Christians. As I speak now, Ethiopians perhaps must have celebrated Christmas. But the bible says.. Blessed are those who believe without seeing.

As we celebrate this world important date, let us not celebrate it like that of Herode that turned into cutting of John the Baptist’s head because of useless promises! This is the time most people tend to promise others uncountable things. If I were you, I would not promise any body any thing this festive season but I would use it as thanks giving and surprises to the ones we intend to.

MERRY CHRISTMASS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR

A word from lia offspring

noreply@blogger.com (Ndelo) — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:32:00 +0000

It’s a moment to say thank you to Christina who is now saying goodbye to us for the accomplishment of all what she has achieved either to an individual or as a group. Changing a community is one of the hardest things on earth because it’s a group of organisms living in a geographical environment with common interest or culture. Some people it’s hard for them to change their cultures much as it might be beneficial to them but until they see its fruits. That is why some tribes in Uganda have vowed never to give up with female circumcision much as the majority is against it. Thank you Christina for having community empowerment campaign at heart. I belief you are taking breath from the big crowd while watching as they enjoy the party, or complaining but you shall be always contacted where necessary.

While the host takes a breath from the crowd, there is always a master of ceremony who keeps on informing the audience or visitors about the party proceedings. For this matter I would like to welcome and congratulate Grace upon taking this challenging task. And with the experiences she has because she has been the audience I belief she will emulate and perform better too. It’s my wish for the new managing director of life in Africa foundation to continue empowering communities by either creating more communities and empower them or empowering those already created. There are some people who don’t know even that they have rights and can also do some thing unless they are retrieved from that deep asleep. Do you know why every body on earth is jubilating about Obama’s victory? Is because people thought that those who have served America as presidents, since they were/are white, could be that they are not human being but divine :) so historians now belief Kwamekuruma of Ghana’s saying that apart from color, we are equal where as it was the day for musicians to remember the late lucky dube’s song of different colors one people.

I can see that life in Africa foundation is accomplishing its aim and objectives, from the time of its inception this has been the vision and it’s good to appreciate this big achievement. When you empower some body or groups of individuals, is the best gift on earth. Because you have empowered him/her/them in all aspects of life right from socail, economical, plotical and emotional. Just as a mother raises her child until he/she is capable of doing by his/her own. This is the time that, that kind of a child comes back and surprises his/her parents with gift and say thank you for raising me up.

The fastest community that benefited from life in Africa foundation's vision is life in Africa Kireka community and many individuals. Life in Africa Kireka is also challenged to sit with its community and see if they can meet their desires.

Moment of Joy

noreply@blogger.com (Ndelo) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:14:00 +0000

Music dance and drama is one another thing that brings people together to relax the mind after the whole day of rehearsal. Much as one has thousand problems, people have different ways of spending leisure that you know yourself, life in Africa kireka members just at the quarter have what we call a get together party on the last Saturday of every month. Even a sad one will one day rejoice!

Look at the members dancing with sacks of groundnuts on their heads. Some with children strapped on the back :) for every celebration for all Ugandan tribes, ladies are honored when in Gomes and men always have no choice. Every body has his/her own ways of rejoicing when that moment comes.

POVERTY PERSPERTIVE

noreply@blogger.com (Ndelo) — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:24:00 +0000

To know the causes of poverty, perhaps we need to first know what poverty is and who is considered to be poor. It always amazes me when I hear people talk about poverty, you will get surprised to hear that even person who is doing fairly good will say that s/he is poor perhaps may not know what being poor means to an ordinary man. At the grassroots level we understand poverty as lack of necessities such as food, clothing, shelter and safe drinking water, health care and not forgetting lack of access to opportunities like education and employment which fuel the escape from poverty or allow one to enjoy the respect of fellow citizens. Perhaps if some body does not belief that s/he is rich then should use the word not having enough.

There are levels of riches just as poverty, if one gets sick and rushes to the clinic without rushing first to the neighborhood to borrow money either for transport or medical bills, then that person is neither too rich nor too poor but just has enough which our community discus as the best. Some people have turned luxuries to be necessities when people in our community may have not even met one basic necessity. The members of this community still live below the poverty line not because they want it or lazy but perhaps the world does not know that such people exist not because of their own making.

They are trying as mush as possible not to be spoon fed but to be productive that they can only cross over the poverty line if some one outside there supports them either in their income generating activities as you must have learnt in this blog or even sponsoring a child’s education. When the children’s parents are poor and not encouraged to go to school, they will be poor even for the tenth generations to come! And that is what economist say poverty cycle; this is what Kireka concern is concerned about.

Much as the government agencies may try, but might not rich all these needy people. But thank God for the upcoming of non governmental organizations, they have helped the government to reach many than before. I was amazed to read on the local news paper about the growth of Uganda’s economy at a rocket speed and this is very common with developing countries, they tend to measure only economic growth without considering economic development. And when they measure economic development, you can find in the hands of 1, 2, 3…5 people, with the majority yawing! There is massive production but is not backed by the market and at the end of the day a sack of maize is sold only to purchase a small basket of necessities leaving them with empty hands to take their children to school or get medical care and this does not make the balance sheet balance.

That is why lia kireka has engaged its community in income generating activities like making handcrafts that if they are supported in, their balance sheet will perhaps balance. We can therefore belief that the majority poor are the illiterate ones, a good number of people in developing countries like Uganda can not pick their names if even if they find it on the way. Based on enrollment data less than 1% of what the world spends every year on weapon was supposed to put every child in school but this did not happen. Infectious diseases like HIV/aids still is a cause of poverty, parents die at an early ages leaving behind helpless orphans, these need be cared for in terms of education, health etc. with no access to clean water, almost 2 – 3 people lacking access to clean water live on less than a dollar a day, including lia kireka community lacks access to clean water and sanitation, this kind of community of displaced persons is supposed to have proper sanitation and clean water. Apart from HIV/aids that can be controlled by other means, malaria may not be the same... 95% of the life in Africa kireka community living in Acholi quarters the outskirt of Kampala depends on cracking stone apart from the in hand crafts, from morning to evening in order to get what to eat but not to buy mosquito net!!

People used to die of natural deaths at the ages of 70 and above but today in Africa people die of natural deaths at the ages of 2 to 40 because of extreme poverty. They lack every thing including shelter, howver much you may eat, get satisfied and medical care, but you sleep in the drainage, you have wasted the food you have eaten. I refer you to my friends’ blog GHETO LIFE. Some people have theory that high birth rate is the one causing poverty in Africa and Uganda in particular, to some extend may not be true because China is considered to be one of the most populated country in the world but they are doing better than Uganda. Anyway, whereas the high birth rate in China is high, it matches its economic growth and development as Uganda is not.

Poverty can not be ended but reduced by access project this can be done by financing and implementation of projects supported by whatever fund and through community led development at the village level to help them achieve the community prosperity for all programs.

PEOPLE AND CULTURES

noreply@blogger.com (Ndelo) — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:31:00 +0000

Apio Dorcus and Adongo Dorren my twin girls made one year on 14th October 2008 :) happy birth day to them. In some African cultures like japadhola in Uganda, twins are very important and it becomes a miracle when one gives birth to twins. In most cases people call it a blessing, when twins are born, there are some rituals performed to welcome the new born in the family. First they are not allowed to be seen by the neighbors until some simple celebration is done, normally food is cooked and served.

Twins have special names like in my females twins are named Apio for the first one to come out and Adongo for the last one to come those applied to girls and if boy’s opio is for the first one and Adongo is for the last one. Apoi/opio means first and Adongo/Odongo means last. The parents of twins are renamed Bawengi for father and miniwengi for mother. The twin mother does not go to their parents until q big celebration is done. Normally the mother of the twins invites her relatives and the father of the twins too invites his relative and celebrates. After this the mother can begin to visit her parents.

The father of the twin can not marry another wife unless the mother of the twins has given birth to another baby. That is about twins in my culture. The above are my first born and moreover twins

How to transform communities

noreply@blogger.com (Ndelo) — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:15:00 +0000

Reaching out the communities has never been easy. When we talk about communities, here I refer to the most vulnerable communities of Africa. Among such communities is life in Africa kireka. This community was formed to see how they exchange their thoughts into meaningful ideas that can help sustain themselves by being productive.

The members are engaged in innovative with recycling as the major activities. Among which are recycling paper beads and many other polythene products. This they think can help them over come challenges at home. And this prompts me ask how one would want to help this kind of community! The best way to leave positive impact to this community is by supporting them in what they are doing. They have beautiful handmade crafts that one would use as gifts for his friends. Take a chance to know what they are doing and see how you can help and make positive impacts.

UNDERSTANDING CONFLICT

noreply@blogger.com (Ndelo) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:45:00 +0000

It may not be easy for an ordinary man to understand what conflict is in local community public speaking. Its very interesting that our parents took us to school learn. People learn and excel but how do we rewards our parents apart from one kilogram of sugar? Its quite healthy to analyze certain issues in local languages, which in most case have been found to be deeper than English. For some one to learn well, he/she should first understand the concept in his own local language. In most cases African educated people tend to even mix vernacular with English when speaking to their parents who may not understand the meaning.

In this aspect Life in Africa Kireka is begging to translate these common English words into local language (luo) in this respect, the community members will be learning. For example there are these terminologies:

“Thawi” meaning quarreling
“ kigesa” meaning complaining
“kale” meaning okay
“Tich acheil” meaning Monday
“sabiti” meaning Sunday

And so on and so forth. These are very common words in our daily speeches that our community needs to understand well.

Back to the topic, one may need to know if conflict is normal, unusual or if it occurs.

In my perspective, conflict occurs in all relationships and it occurs at all levels ie, international, national, community, domestic and personal level. It might be good but if not handled properly may end into negative results. This is one of the biggest challenges in our communities that those leading the communities should learn how handle or to resolve peacefully and this is what life in Africa kireka strives to discuss with its community members.

It’s not easy to separate the people from the problem or conflict but how do we do it? People develop conflicts every one other time depending on many factors that surrounding them. Some time I think conflict develops as a result of stress. It’s truly essential to develop tools that will help in the process of separating the people from the problem or conflict. This is very important because may make do not mistake each other for being the conflict, which only leads to fighting each other instead of fighting the conflict or problem.

With this common understanding of conflict or problem, there is need to be soft on the people but hard on the problem. But one may ask what some of these tools are? To solve the problem, know the cause. In this respect the first tool here would be dream game, belief me or not try ask your friend what his dream is and hear if does not tell you about dreaming for good things only.. such as being able to have enough food, having security, more children completing higher education and getting into gainful employment, reduced death from voice and thousands of good things human being can ever talk of.

Another interesting tool I would think of is the human knot game, one time try to ask people to join their hands and form a circle. Ask for the few to act as observers. choose to fall in and out of the game as a leader they will follow you joyfully but let them entangle into a completed human knot ask them to restore the circle it may not be easy to reverse the process. We may therefore understand that conflicts begin simply but becomes hard to manage later. And also conflict needs analysis and cooperation of those involved because you may realize that from the observer’s perspective, some people are in great pain during the conflict and as a matter of fact even the leader of the game gets caught up in the conflict. Let conflict not get on your way and if does how do go about?

THE BEST GIFT FOR A CHILD

noreply@blogger.com (Ndelo) — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 07:15:00 +0000

The twentieth war in northern Uganda is one of the unfortunate activity still living in the minds of people who directly affected by it or those who witnessed and indeed those who read and watch as journalists present on media and other stake holders who take interest in creating awareness. It may just even one day to disorganize and destroy what is already put in place but it may take many different steps and years to reconstruct it or to put things back together. Bring back people’s memories back to normal from bad happening is yet another difficult task. Human beings memorize bad events longer than good events. Americans will never forget about their twin towers and I wonder whether it has been reconstructed!

With reference to Osama Bin lad en’s brutality on the world trade center which lasted for just few hours, one may think it took him centuries and yet it was just a run and hit tactics but is one of the world’s biggest record known to any living creature on earth. In comparison to Joseph Kony’s twenty years insurgency in northern Uganda, then one can guess its negative impacts on the civilian innocent people. The rights of the people have been denied from all aspects of life, including the right to live and to live where one wants to, education and many others.

Much as Uganda says that its backbone depends mainly on agriculture, any Ugandan following my blogs will agree that the biggest percentage was coming from northern Uganda with cotton the leading cash crop. Cotton growing is becoming history with few growers in the east and that is why probably the textile industries in eastern Uganda is doubt able whether still exists. Though there are many factors for the disappearance of such industries in eastern Uganda but partly as a result of agricultural set back in the north. This therefore has distorted education system in that region in many ways. One which is that people have developed mental problems, secondly the physical structures are destroyed and most importantly no economic activities taking place. People were used to selling their cash crops to get money for their children’s fees but is not the case as I point fingers to this keyboard!

Apart from educational hardships, the majority are unable to get basic needs of life because they lack economic activities or jobs either because there is still fear resettle back home or the job that they would do requires certain skills that is lacking. All these can not be solved in one day and but there should be some thing done to overcome it. You will also realize that there is education hardship because most of the children are either orphans whose parents became victims of the war or war related negative impacts and now living with extended families who may be old/elder persons that needed to be cared for instead!! Some have their parents whom I may say young parents who became parents as a result of forced marriages because they were war victims. Others may not be war victims but engaged in early marriages just to make ends meet. It’s very true that education can delay marriages but if some body is not educated, can marry at the age of 13. The law of Uganda allows a persons to get married when 18 and above but those who went to school think about marriage when they are 30 and above. And one will agree with me that uneducated/poor people are more fertile than the elites/rich. In otherwise, there is no reason for family planning.

How should these problems be solved? Well, Life in Africa Kireka is concerned about these issues and that is why it has come up as a grass root organization to see how they can help themselves. These are members comprising of the displaced persons living in the outskirt of Acholi quarters Kampala. They believe education is the best gift for any child. As organized displaced people, crafts making has become the economic activity in this temporary place but we think beyond that.

poverty highlights

noreply@blogger.com (Ndelo) — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 08:50:00 +0000

Poverty is a very serious cancer in more especially the developing world. Any yet this problem can be solved. poverty is lack of knowledge,ability, cooperation and spirit of helping each other to come out from this problem. No body wants to be poor but how can one come out of this? The only way is the organizations,government to join hands and identify those organized communities who doing some thing and supported in their activities that income generating.

Thanks to the willing hearts to and to those who are making donations be it financial,or through sensitization on how to deal with poverty.

Who is a Hero?

noreply@blogger.com (Ndelo) — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:21:00 +0000

Many people understand hero differently, some look at the political heroes only but I have understood in my own way, Any body can be a hero to some one depending on how that person changed your life, community,or even the counrty. and funny enough every political leader will call him/herself a hero. a sport ster will be a hero to sport funs. and some one may forget that before you look at external heroes, one should look heroes internally. To me, my first hero are parents whom without them I would not be existing. Thanks to all my heroes who made me what am now.

But some times there are some external heroes who are even more than the internal ones, they change people's livies positively, the communities, such persons are should be remembered in our minds depending on how they changed us.

I did not know: happy birthday google,citizens against government waste

noreply@blogger.com (Ndelo) — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:25:00 +0000

Digg 1: Google Founder Lobbies FCC to Free Spectrum

Digg 2: I didn't know. Frosted butts, daylight savings time 2008

I did not know: happy birthday google this a very important tool both to learners and experienced internet users. my first internet lesson was Google search which I find it so useful and easy to use. it gives solutions and is a kind of short cut as a mater of searching for some thing. congratulations Google founder!!! I did not know that it existed nine years back and is many 10 years of service. citizens against government waste if we had this kid of organization in my country, perhaps this would help solve the mismanagement of recourses by the civil servants, the government officials when given offices always tend to abuse it and yet matters concerning this, on non governmental organization is power to discuss about it. though can there are some section still in the government to question in which case its like asking a criminal person to judge a criminal but I find it interesting in America to such wonderful organization. who won the debate there is stiff competition here then, this means both of them are capable of being leaders if Obama won first and then later macai, congratulation to them but only time will tell the next US president.

I wonder: dream dinners, nick carpenter

noreply@blogger.com (Ndelo) — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:34:00 +0000

Digg 1: I wONDER : abby and brittany hensel, conjoined twins
Digg 2: Daughter of Hate Cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed is Pole Dancer

I wonder,dream dinners this was good luck to them! having dinner is one other interesting thing in a community where people like to share. in this family get together and enjoy and also discuss other family matters, But I wonder what kind of dream dinner was " I mean what food" or it was drinks? like where I live, beef,Rice and hard drinks are most considered.nick carpenter Cheating has become an issue among many people and among the top most people perhaps in the whole world. I wonder weather there is a solution to this, perhaps that is Koran permits to marry as many as one can because one man/woman can not meet all the qualities one would wish to find in marriage. but I wonder of the men and women who cheats most? debate time one of the most interesting game is debate, in most cases I call it argument more especially when one argues over what is right or wrong but all the same there must be group of opposition to discuss the disadvantages of certain thing and vi save the proposers to the advantages.

I did'nt know: facebook down,without a trace

noreply@blogger.com (Ndelo) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:15:00 +0000

Digg 1: 20 Websites To Help You Learn and Master CSS

Digg 2:I WONDER: 500 internal server error, youtube down,

I didn't know: facebook down, I have not logged in for the past three days and I was only having problem with yahoo for four days! perhaps its a general problem or depends on internet connection? let it be just a temporary problem because many people use face book and yahoo. without a trace, If he had a case to answer, then to me he is not missing but on the run or hiding some where. I didn't know: female circumcision photos also exists in other parts of the world! in my country its the order of the day for some tribes and some women activists are against it, though every body is stick to his/her culture, more so on my continent, this what I would fight against if I was in that culture or head of a nation. its so painful as any one can imagine! at least male circumcision because health wise is advisable but still some people shun their cultures of it. I remember there was a drama at the opposition political head office when one its party member aged over 65 had pretended to be of another tribe that does not practice circumcision but only traced and napped by his own son for failure to circumcise that it was his being uncircumcised that is why his children are getting sick often!

I wonder: upside down rainbow,gun

noreply@blogger.com (Ndelo) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:49:00 +0000

Digg 1:Why we vote the way we do .....

Digg 2:MY OWN WAY: the day the earth stood still, another universe,

I wonder: upside down rainbow,this is scaring! perhaps the world is coming to an end but according to the covenant God made with man related to rainbow was that if it appears would mean terrible rain that would strike the world again like in the time of Noah! I wonder what would happen if that kind of rain comes again?. gun, The possession of this or a public having a right to hold is just like having a lion in the house!To me the highest percentage of death is by gun so not every body should have the right to hold it as it increases the chance of terrorists. in my country only the service army men have rights to hold guns and only barracks and also security organizations while on duty. I wonder : big brother 10 winner, what is all about this! I have been listening to this in my country people going in the house for the big brother and the an out cry that it degenerates the cultures of some people. I wonder if its some game that is pleasant to the general public?

Talk2me: liverpool vs manchester united,football pictures

noreply@blogger.com (Ndelo) — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:13:00 +0000

Digg 1: Teacher Accidentally Screens Porno to Classroom

Digg 2 : I WONDER: earthquakes today, white plague,

Talk2me: iverpool vs manchester united, For all the time man u has taken to build this popularity, its a bit disappointing to see that man u has started performing badly! however man u fans don,t loose hope. Talk2me: football pictures,It is so interesting to see the players marching with courage to win but its hard to predict which team to win until the game is over
. Since texas weather radar, has placed a new mobile radar,how will this help on the bad weather, more so when it comes to heavy rains,wind and hot sun?

I wonder: michaels crafts,where does your favorite artist rank, trailer park boys

noreply@blogger.com (Ndelo) — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 10:17:00 +0000

Digg 1: The Origins of the Universe - A Crash Course

Digg 2; Fannie mae freddie mac interest rates, women in red racers

I wonder: michaels crafts, how he does the from these stores, there seems to be lots of markets out there because here in my country even just one stall isn't easy to market.I wonder how he recovered the lost so fast in spite of the huge lost! I wonder: where does your favorite artist rank, what it takes to become an idol! its always very difficult to win people's favor when comes to art and crafts. It was really a blessing in disguise for Lucy when she lost her job as a teacher to become a member of trailer park boys,

I wonder : Palin Slashed Funding for Teen Moms

noreply@blogger.com (Ndelo) — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:09:00 +0000

Digg 1: Talk2Me - This is intelligent politics?

Digg2: Palin Slashed Funding for Teen Moms

1.	roberta mccain
2.	pork barrel spending
3.	vitas gerulaitis
4.	robert davi
5.	john mccain s first wife
6.	how old is cindy mccain
7.	mccain speech
8.	carol mccain
9.	gu 63
10.	protesters at rnc
11.	41st president
12.	carol shepp
13.	espn fantasy football
14.	obama o reilly
15.	mccain family
16.	cleft palate
17.	how old is john mccain s mother
18.	mccain children
19.	code pink
20.	bureaucrat
21.	charter school
22.	hurricane ike projected path
23.	ground noise and static
24.	vanderbilt
25.	lindsey graham gay

26.	maverick definition
27.	mccain votes against vets
28.	brandon jacobs
29.	gloria steinem
30.	john mccain acceptance speech
31.	carol brady maiden name
32.	bridget mccain
33.	jerri manthey
34.	ed hochuli
35.	mccain live
36.	vanderbilt football
37.	cindy mccain drug addiction
38.	jimmy mccain
39.	ny giants
40.	bad news bears
41.	dallas cowboy cheerleaders
42.	mccain green screen
43.	plaxico burress
44.	nfl gu
45.	brown noise
46.	purnima
47.	cindy mccain plastic surgery
48.	oreilly factor
49.	admiral mccain
50.	miracle at st. anna

51.	republican national convention protesters
52.	sudden impact
53.	whti
54.	sidney mccain
55.	andy roddick s girlfriend
56.	kay francis
57.	perspicacious
58.	jack mccain
59.	spanish dictionary translation
60.	youravon.com
61.	university of idaho
62.	teddy roosevelt
63.	new york giants
64.	lincoln mks
65.	mccain kids
66.	how many children does john mccain have
67.	palin college
68.	john mccain site wikipedia.org
69.	clinton portis
70.	john mccain family pictures
71.	mccain s mom
72.	homecoming dresses 2008
73.	giants redskins
74.	stephanie meyer midnight sun
75.	bill oreilly

76.	pink protesters
77.	giant killer snakes
78.	western hemisphere travel initiative
79.	sunday night football extra
80.	vanderbilt university
81.	santana moss
82.	gloria steinem sarah palin
83.	ocho cinco jersey
84.	kitchen nightmares
85.	jason campbell
86.	cindy mccain net worth
87.	giants game
88.	current events
89.	jeremy saxe
90.	gu football
91.	hensley and company
92.	adult halloween costumes
93.	fred smoot
94.	theodore roosevelt
95.	jeremy jackson sex tape
96.	a cursive memory
97.	jack abramoff
98.	giants score
99.	mickie james leg show
100.

I wonder why Plain slashed the funding for teen moms! in my country teen moms are the most cared for because they could have given unplanned birth or most of them don't have jobs yet. slashing fund for the teen moms means slashing fund for the babies!!

I wonder if this will make sense to the people!

PARTIAL PLAY: ourwwworld pilot game sample

noreply@blogger.com (christina) — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:39:00 +0000

your post title: PARTIAL PLAY (until you come back to edit your post and finish the play later)

digg 1:TALK2ME play: ourwwworld pilot game sample

digg 2:Obama Outwits the Bloviators

I am leaving this as a partial play. Note to self - come back to this later!

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about the ourwwworld game

noreply@blogger.com (christina) — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:37:00 +0000

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