Friday, December 30, 2011
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
As the year ends
As
we approach the New Year, and I reflect, did I achieve my 2011 goals?
Am in a new town, ok not new but I feel like a fish out of water, and am having to learn to readjust all over again. After getting used to Mombasa life and appreciating the beauty that is our coastal town in Kenya, I am back to the hustle and bustle of Nairobi, AKA the concrete jungle.
I
have had my fair share of disappointments and heartaches, and I guess sometimes
you are not treated the way you would like to be treated but you still have the
decision whether to accept the treatment or walk away. Am getting a bit worried
that I am getting very good at walking away. Note to self "pray for
more patience" or better friends lol
I
had made a bet with my friend that I needed to start a hobby/ money making
venture that would help me build my enterprising skills. Well I started
with grand ideas but all were nullified
to be continued
(volunteering), Lucky in love, 20 things that am grateful for
Monday, September 5, 2011
A Million Reasons for Kenya's Girls to stay in School
Life can be very boring, when all you are doing is accumulating. Accumulating dates, wealth, status, work experience, without giving back to the community. I have always done at least 100 hrs a year on community service be it in the rape rescue center, the children home and the under privileged primary school.
For the last six months i have not had a chance to give back, or as i like to call it pay it forward till i meet a dear friend Kiarie.
The World Bank carried a study that showed that girls miss 10-20% of school days during period school missed due to period, girls complain about poor sanitary products or lack of any. The girls are forced to use pieces of cloths or tissue paper that is bound to stain the clothes and cause them serious infections.
Surprisingly the pioneer of this program has been a Guy, Kiare. He
tells me that this idea came when he was providing first aid equipment
to Baharini Primary School, a community school in Maweni Village in
Kikambala, Kilifi. The issue of girls and their needs touched him that
he reached out to all his friends on a noble idea of all donating a dollar each (Ksh 80), to buy one pack of sanitary towels. thus a noble
cause started.
i was based in Mombasa with Kiarie and i became his number 2, right hand
gal to teach him more on sanitary towels and also help him lobby the
Mombasa market. I acted as a drop off point in Mombasa town, his friends
in Eldoret, Nakuru, Nairobi and Mombasa who act as drop off points also
thus reducing the logistic costs.
So our quest is to collect a million packets of sanitary pads and reach
as many girls as possible and make sure they don’t loose valuable class
time.
Latter on we decided, what is a sanitary towel without anything to hold it, Did these girls have any panties to hold on to the sanitary towels. So came a new campaign to raise money to buy underwear to support the sanitary towel campaign and help keep the girl child in school.
Platonic Freindship
A study that aimed to get respondents to approximate what percentage of their friends had a close but platonic cross-sex relationship. The average for teens was 73 percent; for 20somethings, 59 percent; for 30somethings through 50somethings, about half; and for 60somethings, 24 percent. The trend could be taken to mean that younger (unmarried, unattached) people are more likely to form cross-sex friendships in any era. But it could also reveal something about the time in which we live: Maybe it's much easier to make cross-sex friends now than it's ever been. its the meeting of a kindred spirit in form of the other sex. a person you can let loose and just be friends.Is this possible? it is said that men never go out of their way to keep female friends unless they have an agenda, an motive.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou
Today being International Women Day, i would like to wish all women a happy women day. Women are phenomenal. they love intensely, and are stronger beyond words, they have held homes, economies and countries together. So today ladies,i leave you in capable hands live in the words of Maya Angelou - Phenomenal Woman.
She inspires pride in all of us, as i read this poem i feel good about myself. With my shoulders up high i embrace my womanhood and concur indeed i am a Phenomenal Woman
Maya Angelou - Phenomenal Woman
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.
I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.
I say,
It's the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.
Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can't see.
I say,
It's in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.
Now you understand
Just why my head's not bowed.
I don't shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It's in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.
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