Have you ever reached to a point of blank point in your life!

Everybody every day, each and every one of us we dream and hope to achieve our goals in life but have ever woken up one day and felt that you can’t work anymore you can’t think any more or there is too much you need but as much you have been moving up and down to achieve your goals there is nothing so far you have accomplished yet! You have worked and worked so much but just look one day you woke and realize there is still so much you need to do to achieve your goals! Point blank

Too much politic too much noise too much of law too much of freedom! Where our world is ending to! I work every day in a very simple life style and meet many different people from different back ground but every day I found each and every one of us has kind of challenges in her or his life, my question is what went wrong to us as human being, life does not give break to relax to refresh our minds, after working so hard to achieve our day goals, week, month or year in our life there is always a point blank where you find there is one very important thing you still need you did get it! And this can leave you with no space to enjoy and rethink of all what you have done until you get it! Somebody once said everything in life is circle and it true, very true believe me of not there will be no a day you will wake up and say I have achieve more than I wanted now I can sit down and enjoy the fruits of my work! Yes majority of us we always work hard promising our self after achieving our goals we shall relax and enjoy our great fruits of our work but for sure how many of your friends or people who you know have worked for a certain period of their time in life but now they are just enjoying what they have worked for not worrying or thinking we still have one more think we need to do or get!!

From last month or two I started a field work meeting the ageing people to their home and for sure not only young or middle aged people in challenges as the says say even the rich cries does the same say could be told even the old cries!

Many people spend too much of their life worrying of small things and forget that life is not stopping and our body are not stopping growing old and end up carrying their worries till the ageing life which they could have changing when they were young.

our new partners school in Ruiru

Few days ago I visited our partner’s organization that support children in education and I was sharing with them why many children are not doing well in schooling and different challenges their face as the teachers in school! We as parent we have a lot to do to our children but majority of parent think the work of education or teaching/educating kids it only the work of teachers and also majority we think when we take our children to school they get everything they want there! It’s great to make sure our children go to school learn and be equipped with life skill but also it very very important for us like parent to make sure our children grow up respectful in society and learn behavior from school and in our home as while as life skill.

I may be a talker and listener but it not my wish to be who I am but it my desire to share, create more than human understanding which push me to be who I am today. Just the other night I had a dream in my center happily with so many children running around me and I said thank lord I worked so much I spend so much time thinking of how I can make change to someone life but you have shown me the vision I will follow it till I successes in my desire because this world you gave us we have a lot more need to be done to fulfill your mission in bringing us here!

Do you know every little small thing I do for others and I see a smile in their faces it give me motivation and challenges to know how small human can be satisfied with because most and majority of people who really need help they do not need a mountain of help but little gesture of your time mostly encouragement and direction! But why that is not possible friends just little of your time for somebody what God give you for free something you never went to school to learn or borrowed from somewhere it always yours build in you, born in you and the worse things if you do not use it well when you can, you will go with it! Humanity is all we want from each just little time of our self to share learn and be there for others…….

Today I was talking with youth who are registering for youth training by one Ngo in Kenya for different courses as part of empowering youth in development, majority of this young people aged between 18 and 26 are single mothers and when you ask them what happen or why their do not stay with children fathers, many say it because even when their got the babies they have with the guy their didn’t plan to have the child but because of the challenges their face in life they did not have any option, it was in process of searching for daily bread and so on and the worse thing’ this mistake (thing) or problem are you wish to call it is repeated several and you find a young girl under the age of 28 years with more than one child from different men! When they get the first one the go out to search for food the one they have and end up getting another lover who will provide them with food but at the end of the day’, they end up giving them a second baby. What a life??

Point blank friends when will we end up human suffering in our world and start acting like human being? If you look this kind of situation do you see a bigger challenge coming and that why mostly here in Africa poverty will never end because everyday children are born out wedlock and end up with single mother who cannot provide this children with everything their need and that the challenge we need to work on from the start relationship of girl and boy is not bad thing but if it driven blindly it keep us getting back to where we started,

The point here is education just ordinary education does not change our youth behavior but if we all behave like human care of each other and be there for each other we can end up small challenges keep pushing us backward in our life! Let think together and look your neighbors your community members as your fellow human being who need you and you need them in time of need, let us like parent think of education/ learning of our children and be the first best teachers to our children when their grow up have strong foundation to guide them in life challenges.

My greatest dream/wish in life is to build one kid at time a better strong and healthful foundation which will bring not only for her/her benefit but the whole society if life allow me today finish up the center am building and manage to create few income generating activities for the center will do great and try reach as many soul as I can!

Just wishing all my great follower of Uncle Ben blog and Hope Blog happiness in their life and thanking you so much for your time hoping one if God keep us a together sharing one day my today words you will see them as activities! Be blessed and remember making a change to someone life it does not need so much of earthly materials but one’s personal interest!

Uncle Ben

Upcoming 2012 Hope Children and Empowerment Center program for ten to twenty (10-20) Youth in the village

Help me here please!!

Once a man told me if you cannot make it to sun just try to land in moon at list am kindly preparing for few days training for young people in the village majority who could not advance their education in High school for alternative course training on making candle and after training we plan start small Hope candle making and selling to neighborhood as a means of empowering this Young Youth in our society and the mentality of dependence among our Youths.

Problem/challenges

In the world today everybody is talking and talking of things which can be done to empower youth in society and a lot have been done! I would like to take this opportunity to thanks all people’s groups and cooperative which are supporting youth in our society

We believe there is this information career and people out there with different talent which is not been used and it just a matter of luck of awareness and understanding yourself! After my discussion with various youths few days ago and reading a lot of comment which was put here in many website by different youth workers I have clear mind everywhere in the world we are overcoming the some difficulty with our Youth and the only way to try to make change to this (not possible to change everyone or achieve our goal 100%) but it’s possible to organize an avenue which we can train the Youth how to fish and leave them to do so!!

In the world today everybody is talking and talking of things which can be done to empower youth in society and a lot have been done! I would like to take this opportunity to thanks all people’s groups and cooperative which are supporting youth in our society.

In Kenya the government started this Kazi Kwa Vijana program to empower youth in different part of Kenya but still there is a lot to be done today I was talking with different youth in Kibera and as far as they all know about the KKV program it seem it only program for the informed one’s or educated youth who can have time to get in computer do the research and come up with plan and proposal.

Everybody has his/her own way of thinking and understanding and our great focus is to change dependences to self-determination and we can only achieve this if all head are put together share and support and come up with the best solution!

Goal

Our goals as HCCR to look for most needy young people in the village train them how to make candle and marketing of their product which will bring income to a group of few Youths and  our center in large to enable us be able to support other program.

Requirement

Already we have got the teachers who will be able to come and teach in our center for few days for a understandable fee, the trainer will also help the group to brand the candles and teach them small treads of marketing their products.

For Hope to manage to facilitate the program we need small capital to invest in the program which will be used in buying of materials needed for the candle making process and packing.

How you can support

Any members/ volunteers who would like to support this program or sharing ideas of the program you can help in funding financially for the training or after training investment of business or any other ideas.

Other Request 2012-13

We are also looking for volunteers expect on areas of training Youth on

ü  Volunteer/s Management assistance and marketing professional

ü  Volunteer/s Building sun solar panel lamp

ü  Volunteer/s to help write proposal for putting IT training

ü  Volunteer/s to help run baby class school and management

ü  Volunteer/s to train and run micro finance for women and community in large

ü  Well-wishers to help adapting children in education program or supporting the program   

Kindly if you are interested in volunteering yourself, sharing or supporting the above request to help facilitate our programs and empower the children Youth and community in large kindly contact Benjamin at hopecenter2009@gmail.com 

Last remember everybody and everything we meet or over come in this world  they are in our life with reason I may not that perfect today to solve your problem but when I can’t help it do not blame me just accept me the way I am because tomorrow is a new day!

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Every child needs better, fair, free and quality education! Join us to make sure we take back every child every young man/women back to where the need to be for you and me better world tomorrow!

Do belief in changing one person at time or working for a number?

For while now I have been working on social and community empowerment in different communities and I have met so many organization and people who are doing great work in our societies and other groups, but my biggest question is what do we look in terms of making changes in our societies?

I have not understood up to now what is better for organization is it the number or out come? Anyway it depends with the way we look things, but if I have been a judge or person to make judgments I would look things in different way of making the change!!

Once in life I decided to move my life in a different way than what I used to  think and I promised myself I will not look back or  fear to go for what I want I did not mind my education or who are with me but I shared my ideas with many who seemed to like it so much and I said to myself I will not let what I love or created just be used for just fun or personal interest and from that point I knew what I want and little by little I do not mind for how long it will take, but am sure one day my greatest desire dream will be fulfilled by me or by somebody else.

This year my work my life seem like it going opposite of what I want I have so much ideas things which I can’t just explain them here but for sure I know because of one issue or another I have a lot to do to fulfill my dream every day I search for opportunity, opportunity to do things the right way, opportunity to explain or to meet somebody who will understand me and help me with ideas or financially, but every day end up in vain but I never lose hope I will keep going on and on until I find what I want because this world need more courage more strengthen, more creativity more trying and trying I will not stop until my last breath.

Last two months I talked so much of child support and I still think a lot of how I can be able to help children who their parent or guardian can’t be able to help them in high school education or other education.’’ Education’’ even if it will not guarantee you 100% your future success it not just like the one who do not have any skill in that level and when I talk of this I say it with confidence from my personal experience, we have to look solution of empowering our children and giving them opportunity when still young if we want to make the future change and reduce dependency, early pregnancy or married, Drugs abuse, crime in our societies and many other challenges we over go because of luck of enough knowledge from our childhood, we must think of how every child can access to free and fair better education.

Why I said education is the key of this challenges one if our young people who do not have the opportunity for better training or counseling education, what happen is this guys look for anything out of frustration to fulfill life needs for them, some find sex as the escape place to hide their worries and to find happiness (as also we very well know luck of what we want, love as we call it), it our greatest way to make ourselves happy which end up with pregnancy or other related diseases or challenges in life, such family conflicts, crimes and long term poverty life.

Others  such as Drugs abuse does together morally with finding other ways of happiness which drive our young people from level a of just alcohol, to hard drugs which turns to be addiction then because of need of it such people may driven to crime to earn money be able to acquire  that they need.

I have talked so much of early married before and where it take us to when we start dating or enjoying hide and seek sex which at that moment because of pressure and that joy it give us, we normally think this is the right person and if you have nothing else in front of you which is demanding the next thing you think is getting married and for sure nothing sweet like having a girl or a boy who you think (I say you think because this is un-matured relationship) is your life time lover.

Most of such relationship are very sweet at the beginning but it changes everything when the baby or the pregnancy come in, that when things start getting worse and relationship start getting sour, then afterword you need to think of the father who have not good education and the same to the wife who by then will be too busy to think anything outside the box than the new born baby!

What such family could earn or could do than to look for casual jobs which they are paid just to have enough for their family meals.

Am very sure and am sure you will agree with me up to there, if we need to change things or end up poverty we must focus in one thing at time and by doing so little by little we shall come to conquer our biggest challenges in our societies today. Somebody may think why do I worry and my family can afford to pay for me and I will be able to pay for my children education and everything their need! Is that Selfish or what I call un-human is thinking?  Am sure you have heard of this one man challenges is everybody worry! Ask me how and why? If you do not see the problem, once is said, every little challenges from conflict from the families, conflict from Tribes, conflict from Nation it all start with very small things we ignore from the second we think we have no problem on our selves because we can have everything we need as family or as person/s

Lastly to end my analyses  today let me say we need to think big and think as human and do not think Ben challenges does not bother you it will and it will become one day part of your life challenges if we do not address it the right time, what do I mean life give us different opportunity and we are all blessed or gifted with different talent, skills, or way of thinking which give us capability to achieve our goals as we wish, somebody somewhere maybe going to life challenges because one day something went wrong not because he/she wanted to things to be so, but it happens and it can happen to anybody and it is our love, passion, and willingness to make one thing at time change that can make somebody else one day do something for someone else!

For the past few days I have been volunteering in one of our partners organization and I have seen something never seen before, one guy Asian original current Kenyan he has come up with program of helping the people, by providing them with money to start a small business from his own income without asking for refund or interest like many people do, just want he does is to sit down with them and ask them what they want to do and if their give good explanation he give them some money which is a big boost to them all those who have received now this small help have started small income business or invested to work which will add value in their life..

That left me wondering how many people in the world even if there are billionaires can be like this one man, people have ideas things they would love to do but because they do not have people to guide them or motivate them or support them their end up doing what their do not like for just getting their daily meals or something to keep them alive.

To finish up my today issue this not only me words but after discussing and talking with other we may be seem like we have nothing we can do because we do not have power to express our selves but if given opportunity we can move the mountain.

Let think for long term solution and stop assuming or ignoring things which are fact but let us take every single person as human understand them and help them, uplift their life to bring change in our societies, nations, and our beautiful world.

Ben cares! Do you!

 Thanks for your time if you like my thinking just share but living a comment or by sharing with a friend!

Uncle Ben

Do you know what is’’-Education challenge to a Kenyan child?

Fact of researched by personal experience and one in one discussion of many young youth what their think of the above topic). Life begins from the birth does education start from our birth, as the wise guys said  if you want a tree grow straight as you want you must start straightening it while still young!

Kenyan children have been facing a number of challenges that make it difficult to attain quality education over the years, this is a common phenomenon in the country which requires keen scrutiny so that a long term solution can be inferred, and unfortunately those challenges are of two categories, which are unavoidable( due to current circumstance)  and avoidable challenges.

Poverty is a major threat to quality education in Kenya most of Kenyan and other developing countries with a high dependency ratio situation that simultaneously occur with the source valuable natural resources and low per capitol income. This means that parent are unable to afford quality education to their children such that it leads to lack of school fees hence the students are always out of school to remind their parents of the enormous dept. beside the inadequate capital in form of money does not give room for the capability to purchase the essential educational materials, such as books, pens, uniform, etc. more over inadequacy of food, clothing and quality shelter cause distracted minds and  frustration to the children who in turn find it difficult for them to concentrate fully on their academic work at school due to the struggle by parents to make ends meet, it hard for them to take their children to a good learning institutions, i.e. school where there is enough provision of high quality educational standard library and laboratory, classrooms and skilled teachers, eventually they are taken to the low educational standard schools that aim at average performance.

There more reason such as also ignorance is key main factors that discourage education for the Kenyan children, it is vivid that some Kenyan live in conditions which do not allow them to access vital information, some student therefore have no reason to work hard and perform discreetly in lack of awareness or rather they have no idea of how important education can be to them, others never interact with someone admirable they can emulate as role model or someone to give them challenge that would stir up their attitude toward education , such students, idea of education is quite passive this mostly occurs in the Kenyan remote areas where the day to day activities of the society members do not recognize anything to do with education, those children grow up with a notion that education is not really important and is meant for the people who idle around or are time wasters, you may find that the history of such a society is full of illiteracy, out of ignorance the children cause irreparable harm to educational system in the society and end up illiterate.

Backward culture beliefs also deny the Kenyan children an opportunity to attain a quality education, a perfect example is the practicing of early marriage that are forcefully imposed on the on the latter such practices are a major list down to educational development countrywide since on the other hand they must be adhered to for the fear violating the ancient norms of the society hence end up as semi-illiterate or completely illiterate and living a miserable life. gender discrimination also drugs educational development since the girl-child for example is denied this chance to learn because according to the believes that women are supposed to be house wives so they get married for their kin people to feast on the bride-price.

 Some religious anticipation is also one of many challenges of Kenyan child face and restricts the achievement discreet performance since they contradict the educational anticipations. Some discourage embracing western education while some calls for full time dedication to church activities which overlap the time student are expected to fully dedicate to their educational work in long run they either perform poorly in education or even drop out of school.

Moral decay in our society is a big let down to the educational quality in the country most of Kenyan student and disobedient and they think they are always right thus they look down upon their parents and teachers, they do not head any advice, others are negatively affected by the mass media and fellow peers, they engage in illegal and immoral activities that draw their attention completely away from education,  example  are drug and substance abuse which leads to withdrawal halogenated addiction etc, which do not concur with this educational expectation for sterling performance in exams, others include the irresponsible sexual behaviors, like  fornication, incest, adultery and prostitution's whose side-effects are unwanted pregnancies and contraction of sexually transmitted infections that cause psychological trauma, frustration a sense of gift despair in life suicide abortion and death or they either drop out of school or perform poorly in exams.

Other issues which affect the Kenyan child in education is corruption  and prejudice in our society largely contribute to poor educational standard among the Kenyan children, in case of corrupt leaders who ought to work coordinating with their family and close friends to misuse the learning institutions hence the Kenya child has to endure the pain of using law quality facilities that hinder high academic performance eg the money meant to purchase books, build classes, laboratories or libraries etcetera, prejudice  of the other hand, example, tribalism, make some schools too hostile to be used by some Kenyan for attaining education on account of their original tribes, also some schools administration committee think its school should be used by a specified tribe hence deny others an opportunity to attain quality education.

Dualistic ideology is another major challenge to some part of Kenya for Kenyan child as far as the education is concerned in this situation the society offer alternatives to education such as instead of concentrating on education one may venture into an economic activity early like farming to be able to win their daily bread for the family, such a belief is so materialistic since these people only think about earning a living and since education need long term investment of capital and money and time to be ready to harvest from it young Kenyans drop out of school and go for available that are supported by the community i.e. planting khat plant or tobacco and other quick cash food.

Lack of parental guidance is also a big contributor to the challenges discouraging attains of quality education in Kenya among the Kenyan children, this is sometimes due to being brought up by single parent or incase where parent are so busy that they care least about what the children do or learn from friends and at school.

Beside the rapidly growing Kenyan population, leads to a situation where there are numerous children under this care of two parents who find it difficult to do it hence their children grow up without wise advice from parent on how to concentrate and focus in life, more so education such children perform poorly in education for they lack somebody to show them the way and correct or rebuke in case they go astray.

Furthermore students need to be motivated but in case of De-motivations they do not really perform well, they need compliment and material prizes when they make effort and improve academically, lack of these leads to loss of morale to do extra hard work to perform well in education.

Lastly the average doctrine is also a hindrance to quality education such that children aim to perform well or rather attain a pass in the long run the educational standard are lowered, none of them perform excellently for they endorse the doctrine of if I have passed the expectation then all is well, low level of technologies in Kenya since it is a third world country drags education performance since acquisition of important educational concepts is low and ineffective.

In a nut shell those challenges really have to be dealt with accordingly to improve educational standard i.e. in term of quality and the number of literate Kenyan children at the end of the day.

These are some the main challenge of Kenyan child in education  my biggest dream is create an avenue where we can be able to understand the critical challenges of Kenyan child in education a lot have been done but lot more need to be done yet!

Kindly if you have ideas share with us let us know how we can help few because as we always say as much as we want to make change we can’t change everything at once! Step by step we can improve our education for our children……

You can Support us, and help us achieve our goal in mobilizing and supporting the needy children in education, look for our account in one of our recently post!

(Drafted by Sharon shared with Uncle Ben (student of mass communication in Nairobi)

Thanks for your time and support!!

Always

Uncle Ben (I care! ‘‘Do you?’’)