Now
it seems like Kibaki administration ending with his promise of free education
while the private schools are getting too expensive. What happening to our children who can’t
afford the private school! Where is their Future!! Are we expecting to reduce
the gap or leave it for the rich becoming more richer and poor more poorer! If
our Mp’s are really honorable as it is’ they could now have resolved this issue
already by cutting little of their salaries to a certain percent to go to the
teachers.
Kenyan
we need to wake up majority of us we work 24/7 and pay taxi for everything if
your neighbor child does not get better education not only your neighbors will
feel the pain belief me or not it will reach to your house too…
Today
is the third week from when Kenyan school teachers started strike and our
children are continued staying home and hopeless mothers are getting worries
but the worse of it is how our leaders talk and it seem not even the big boss
of our education offices worries so much because none of their children go to
those public school.
Just
to take you back in time when our current parliament house took place, the
first big thing those guys did was to add their salaries, they did not even
consult the Kenyan but they decided to raise their salaries and just like that
they did it! So why not the teachers who provided them with that skills in
education and knowledge they have today why not give them what their want why
not make them happy sure their can bring much better brighter Kenya!
Just
to make the matter worse for the past almost two years majority of our
politician what they do is to move up and down campaigning for themselves do
you know how much money their use moving up and down and how much of that money
can be used to educate the poor Kenyan?
A few months ago there was money to increase the
salaries of civil servants; the MPs increase their salaries and benefits when
they feel it is appropriate for them. It was very convenient for nearly the
entire government to go for the Olympics in London and what is disturbing is
the rate at which our government officials are going for international trips
some of which are not adding value to the general growth of the state.
As I was writting this letter today i found this
post of my of my friends in Facebook and liked it because it just what i was
thinking ‘’ Those of us who have time to read the famous book Shamba la
Wanyama “The Animal Farm” and take a great look at our Kenyan society, we can
for sure see many things resembling. A situation where there are individuals
who are more equal than other, where some people cannot be questioned and that
their orders are meant to be the binding law’’
Where
our economy taking us now only God Knows’ I keep saying and I will say it again
and again if we wanna change the future we have to start it now and work it now
by doing what right and great for our children and that why my heart my mind
tell me in my life the best thing I can do for this world is to help a needy
child in education so I can help her or him for the better future.
This
week I have been busy up and down trying to help our partnership organization
in planning of their upcoming event of support the Ageing people by giving them
free medical treatment, nothing is easy for the poor/needy people to get it and for sure I have learn a lot of
this and I wonder when our world will reach to where health care is offer to everybody
with cheap price, in the sometime I was watching the other day news our doctors
too are on the strike, Kenyan pay a lot of money for the medical insurance
cover which already enough to pay our doctors but what happening today it not
fair for the ordinary Kenyan who cannot afford special service from schooling and health care…
That
why I keep saying and saying we have to rethink and work together in empowering
our young one’s in education because that where all our challenges start
because at the end of the day when two bulls fight who suffers –( the grass)
the children who their parent cannot afford private school, our sick people who
can not to get services from private hospital, our youth who are Jobless and
every needy Kenya who need help from the above to achieve or get those service
which now it has become nightmare.
My
cry to friends and people of good will is to rethink and see where we can make
change to our human development, it is too bad only the other day I WAS going
through most of funding organization and try to search evaluate which
organization can be able to fund us as small organization or other small
community based organization, but my surprises is most of organization conditions
are too high and requirement is for only who already have climbed the ladder
out of poverty,
Today’s
technologies help everything and make things much easy and fast but how many
needy people have that opportunity to access that technology? If you want to help the most needy person
down there in village who cannot tell the different between TV and computer.. Realty
can you tell me how that guy will be able to express or go online to fill the
requirement so he can get fund to develop his community.
We
climb ladder too fast and move very fast and forget our main goal is to lift
the needy leave them there and keep feeding the rich guys pocket and making them
more richer because they have what we want or give information as we want but
forget who really need that help!
The
world is moving so fast yes all of us too who work for humanitarian we need to
move in the same direction but our ladder need to be of different not like for
a business person who only his/her business goals is to gain more and more –
think of those down in village where only the technology they have is phone and
if they want to request for fund is only a pen and paper and if their lucky get
somebody to help them type or print.
To
end my point here, kindly let look our policy of funding and strategic of how
we plan reaching the most needy people believe me or not if you live in Kibera
for example or living and working under one dollar a day to find enough for
just food and basic need if you can be able to save enough for other
requirement such as cyber for internet service maybe you will be able to save
one dollar a week.. Fact how long can you stay connected for only $1 (dollar)
Lastly
do as you wish our world is full of potential people, people with great
opportunity, career, talent and wealth but we will never or have that freedom
to feel safe or protected, when others keep wishing if they can be in the same
position with us! And to make our world better, peaceful and where every human
feel cared we have to try lift the one we left behind by offering them the
right service or need as their capacity.
Thanks
--- look out for my next letter of How Youth are Mislead by luck of opportunity
(been in wrong place or in wrong company just to gain acknowledge or daily
bread)
At the sometime I will be talking of what plan
we have in partnership with other small youth organization (involving Youth in
leading in community health and awareness, in sanitation, peace building, and
role model for better society)
In
God will – keep in touch and informed
Uncle
Ben
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