Hi everyone - sorry I didn't see this sooner to share with you. You would need to respond very quickly.

What would you say to Nokia Africa?

by HASH on June 2, 2010

On Friday I’ll be addressing some of the top business decision makers for Nokia in Africa. My goal is to shake them up a little, make them think deeply and differently about the African market.

Nokia hasn’t truly innovated in Africa since they put a flashlight in a Nokia 1100 in 2003.

I’ve been asked to discuss my views on how the handset and mobile services business situation is developing, what the opportunities are in those areas and suggestions on how Nokia could lead in this market.

Therein lies the problem: I’m only one person with one opinion, they need to hear from others with different experiences.

What would you say?

Add yours in the comments at:

http://whiteafrican.com/2010/06/02/what-would-you-say-to-nokia-africa/

The best will be brought to the Nokia executives attention:

Hallow Pam,Josephat,Maria,Andrius,Ricardo and all.I wish you are doing ok in
your daily activities.I was not online for a period of time but i thank God that
am back with some energy in my daily activity.
    I was started an idea salled Knowledge work which i was doing in my own,its
an idea of teaching students as an extra studies for their level.But at this
time i stoped because they are in hollyday time and most of they went to their
villagies to greet babu na bibi.
    Now days there is an exercise which is proceeding in our country,am among of
the people whose are registering,my post is arround Bamaga the way to go Sinza.
  I will tell you more about this exerxcise as far as possible tommorrow.
by Abinel Emmanuel.

• Short introduction to Pyramid of Peace
• Full story of Pyramid of Peace
  

• What about Health and use of the mobile in rural Nigeria?
• i would prefer will dwell on topics that can bring about improvement in the lives of local youths
• It might be possible to make the phones use VOIP then offer free calling between phones, just like skype
• Sharing Health information as cost effectively as possible for remote communities where health services are not readily available
• I remember Dr Chris saying he loved the fact that people could phone before bringing sick people  to see him - so if he was away they knew to wait until he returned
• I think the cost of calls is a big issue here.
• With Micro Finance field officers doubling as Info Agents, that's some cost saving, enhancing their status,
• yes that is practical,cost effective and socially beneficial to all showing that MF is not just about the loans and recovery etc
• .... talking Social Business, I think, and this is what MF, our model is all about
• This is an issue which is coming up at a lot of NGO meetings but not a lot of people seem to really know what to do about it - so it could be very useful for a round table discussion.
• Sharing Health information cost effectively for underserved and remote communities is a problem that will not go away as demonstrated by the constant stream into the FF clinic since last Friday event. 
• Folks are just hearing of the event, someone came in this morning from Gombe. Getting the information is primary. If these folks had the info, they'd have been seen by Prof Obaro and Dr Inusa on Friday.
• For me a big problem is the lack of phone networks in those rural areas, how erratic they are and the cost of making calls.
• We have found phone access in most unsusual remote locations during the ESSPIN: fortuitous access. These can be mapped
• The providers are concentrating on urban centres where they can make the most profit
• The Pareto priciple - 80% 20% rule
• I made a 10 minute phone call yesterday evening.  It cost me nearly N300.
• Government is yet to meet the challenge of providing the incentives for providers to explore rural locations
• The providers say they have to cover cost of diesel for their generators: thats where the high price comes in
• so that is something for the solar power innovators
• That should be the challenge, what do you do in spite of these constraints to save life through easier, affordable phone access?

--- In learningfromeachother@yahoogroups.com, "abinelimmanuel"
<abinelimmanuel@...> wrote:
>
> Hallow Pam,Josephat,Maria,Andrius,Ricardo and all.I wish you are doing ok in
your daily activities.I was not online for a period of time but i thank God that
am back with some energy in my daily activity.
>    I was started an idea salled Knowledge work which i was doing in my own,its
an idea of teaching students as an extra studies for their level.But at this
time i stoped because they are in hollyday time and most of they went to their
villagies to greet babu na bibi.
>    Now days there is an exercise which is proceeding in our country,am among
of the people whose are registering,my post is arround Bamaga the way to go
Sinza.
>  I will tell you more about this exerxcise as far as possible tommorrow.
> by Abinel Emmanuel.
>Today is a last day for that kind of exercise,i have got so many people,others
they lost there lines,others thry want to register.
  It means thst most of the people they are not aware thatswhy now they are going
to awake from the very deep sleepness.
    Iam in my working post now here Bamaga in sinza road,i decided to inter in
internet to inform you about this issue of registeration.I people in verry big
line waiting for service,this chance i have got because i came to make
photocopies of their ID cards.See you next time also i will have chat with Prims
about this issue in Swahili chat room as far as possible.You are also welcome.
                your friend Abinel Emmanuel.
                   Uyoga member.

Science for the `Re-Africanization' of Africa

Africa is perhaps the most culturally imaginative and creative region in the
world. It is extremely diversified, rich in talents and ingenuity with unlimited
resources and potential. It has colonized the planet and it enriches humanity
through inimitable arts. Yet, one African out of two lives in dismal human
conditions. And despite spectacular progress here and there, it also remains
profoundly socially and culturally conditioned, corrupted, domesticated and
debased by two self-inflicted intellectual and ritual servitudes – koranic and
evangelical - and overwhelmingly regimented, disciplined and deceived by a host
of indigenous erroneous beliefs, faulty dogmas, half-truths, intoxicating
mythologies, life-denying superstitions, theological entrappings, mystifying
fictions, unknown foundational assumptions, pipe-dreams, fantasies,
charlatanisms, junk science and a flood of nonsense.  In this regard African
policy-makers should recall the ideals of the French Revolution: down with
paternalistic, autocratic and despotic kings and fear-mongering, deceitful and
fraudulent merchant-priests. Translated into this region at the present time -
obscured and disfigured by foreign metaphysical symbols - on top of the African
agenda freedom thinkers, lovers and fighters should put (1) `deprivatizing,
defragmenting and civilizing African states' and (2) `desacralizing,
secularizing and decolonizing African cultures', for a less totemic, more
cosmopolitan, non-Abrahamic, truly enlightened, scientifically-informed and much
less patriarchal self-determined and self-empowered post-colony, in search of
the superior genuine and purified meta-African, achieving the highest human
possibilities.

Science, which should neither be demonized, idolized or worshiped, has never
been the forte of the spiritually contaminated African human animal and can
never be under current pre-modern overreligious knowledge systems, particularly
science as a way of thinking and as a method of evidence and reasoning, that, if
allowed to run free, would certainly transform the very cultural underpinning
and identity of the continent.  The modernization of these old-fashioned
systems, as the backbones of any mode of modernity, requires in priority the
modernization of our mental and intellectual costumes. This process is
essentially the passage from closed, self-confirming, faith-based, customary,
totalizing or terrorizing knowledge systems – propagated by bigoted and
barbarous ecclesiasts and mysterious `witch-doctors' - to essentially liberal,
falsifiable, facts-based, scientifically-established, technically-proven and
innovative knowledge systems (not a single new god in the last 1000 years!!). In
these uninhibited systems scientific knowledge can be construed as a theory of
the real and as a technology of truth and understood as the epistemological
foundation of any form of Afro-modernity. It is also the passage from the `Book
of Scripture' to the `Book of Nature' and from the submission to the white man's
colonizing gods to the more authentic African stuffs.

The key to an African revival or Renaissance is the breaking of the reigning
hegemonic order, basically regulated and sustained by Islam and Christianity –
two medieval phallocratic backward solitudes and perverted obscurantist
establishments – living in the secluded past, thriving on holy lies, absurd
fabrications, fears, mirages, delusions, false hopes and subservient obedience
and, genealogically, on the non-African narcotics, values and moralities of
ancient middle Eastern `slave' mindsets and worldviews.

Historically, science has proven to be too toxic, troubling, unsettling or
destructive for a region whose knowledge systems are plagued with spirituo-,
mystico-, magico-, abrahamo-, euro- and phallo-centricity, that excessively
seeks comfort in historical debris, bogus revelations, pseudo prophecies,
imaginary deities, ancestors' spirits, phony limbos, made-up angels,
mind-boggling miracles, wonderful heavens, amazing demons, implausible
resurrections…and other strange and unconscious chimeras, taboos and biases,
providing ample material for Freudian theses. It is a region that fell prey to a
gigantic fraud and misfortune and that babbles abusively in the invention of
hypothetic other-worlds and after-lives, which confines the minds, poisons or
vampirizes life, drags Africans outside nature and denies or weakens this
worldly existence. It also wears down the natural self, consumes time and
precious resources, drains valuable energies, devalues the body, camouflages the
discovery of the earth, lessens control over natural environments and erects
interreligious barriers, which split communities and undermines Pan-African
solidarity.  Uncovering an original Afro-modernity, distinct from the
North-Atlantic style, requires liberating and supporting the few progressive,
autonomous, scientific, secular and free thinkers on the continent, which
entails unashamedly blaspheming in every meeting, on every wall, on every CoP,
network and blogging site, with an unorthodox radical neo-narrative.

Science in Africa has to become defiantly offensive and utterly heretical and
sacrilegious to be effective and win over the two great non-African pathetic
phallocracies that deplete the African spirit and vitality and dampen African
innovation, as the current state of a self-alienated region amply demonstrates.
Muslim and Christian cosmic visions and phantasms, masquerading as divine
revelations, are not helpful and absolutely not needed in Africa, as the degree
of human development of Finland, Japan and Singapore, for example, abundantly
demonstrates, for they constitute insidious obstacles to cognitive development
and to the emergence of scientific ways of constructing and ordering realities.
These anachronistic vestigial phallocracies, oppressive machineries of churches
and mosques and institutionalized captive systems of mental cruelty, where
escape is nearly impossible or statistically insignificant, flourishing on
selling the shameless notion of personal immortality, impact sublimely and
negatively on all aspects of African life, including in unsuspected places, such
as in agriculture where repeated long periods of fasting, numerous religious
holidays, prayers for rain, faith in providence, belief in humans as
supernatural beings, women's banned inheritance and ownership of land, fear of
ungodly bio-engineering, dismissal of scientific facts and rejection of
common-sense truths, etc. are contributing to hunger, poverty and
underdevelopment. They also impact positively in many respects as they fill a
basic human need and provide some soothing intelligibility to a fundamentally
incomprehensible tragic world.

Part of the solution, in addition to economics and politics, for going beyond
the trivial, superficial realities, entrenched mental habits, close-mindedness,
demagogueries, populist pomposity, stubborn views, narrow provincialism,
conventional system of thought, confounding appearances, mythical taming canons,
self-deceptions, self-flagellation, wishful thinking, intellectual torpor,
inflationary rhetoric, circular or tautological arguments, feel-good meetings
and ceremonial entertainment, is to become compassionately disrespectful of
long-established authorities, roll Imperial-Doctrinaire-Contemptuous Islam and
Hebraic-Pauline-Constantinian-Roman Christianity out of Africa – two
proselytizing religions of decadence - and battle magical witchcraft and
mystical shamanism, which would open the way to superior insight, understanding
and awareness and to a distinctive version of Afro-modernity, honoring
unbelievers and infidels.  This paradigmatic shift toward modern ways of knowing
and acting requires championing the scientific method, the rule of technique and
innovation as well as promoting decisive scientific arbitrations, increased
technical mediations and a redefinition of STI's relationships with religious,
cultural, social and economic life.  For this shift to occur there is a need to
better appreciate modern science, not as a Christian crime, but as a method of
both calculative and subversive thinking and as a means of achieving the
systematic unmasking and renovation of conventional / medieval / pre-modern
realities. This call for re-cosmologizing, re-mythologizing, `re-prophetizing',
re-charlatanizing and re-directing the evolution of a mutilated empirical
reality toward a truly `African' future, emancipated from the sacred relics of a
convoluted history.

African science policy makers have to design sustainable visions, strategies and
policies to let the scientific spirit out of the bottle, fight medievalism,
drive a new relationship between Africa and the emerging modern cosmos, forge a
new engagement with the naked world, de-technocratize the mostly empty
development discourse in science and practice the science of the `hammer'.


Jacques L Hamel
Scientific Affairs Officer
UNECA
Profile:   http://www.linkedin.com/in/jacqueshamel
jachamel@...

Hi Everyone

We are looking for individuals/SE organisations which work in the area of disabled access who would be interested in taking part in a CISCO teleconference seminar between the UK and China hosted by i-genius and British Council in London (and Guangzhou) on the morning of Thursday 3^rd June (3 hours).

Theme: disabled access to public services e.g. education, employment, healthcare, transport, sport, plus other areas

It’s a great opportunity to showcase your work internationally, take part in a unique exchange and make connections in UK and China. The seminar will be translated and filmed. We are looking for a broad range of organisations including mental health. Designers are also welcome.

Please contact me if you would like to take part or if you know of other relevant people/organisations.

Thank you

Tommy Hutchinson

Founder & CEO

i-genius: World Community of social entrepreneurs

London + Tokyo

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7690 8232

Mobile: +44 (0) 7947 881 474

http://www.i-genius.org

http://www.i-geniusacademy.com

NEWSLETTER ISSUE 04

– PETER DRUCKER CHALLENGE – ESSAY CONTEST FOR THE YOUNG GENERATION

With the announcement of the Peter Drucker Management Forum 2010 the Peter Drucker Society has launched an Essay Contest directed to the young generation. All those not older than 35 and passionate about the future of management and society may turn in their essay. There will be up to 40 winners with free access to one of the premier management conferences in the world – the Peter Drucker Management Forum Vienna, November 18 and 19, 2010. The authors of the top 3 essays will also be invited to participate in a senior executive event on November 17 in Vienna. More information about the terms and conditions for the contest can be found under

http://www.druckerchallenge.org/

Hi Sasha and all,
Perhaps you might be interested in the paid work opportunity from
Conversations Network for website editors ($10 per show), see below.
Greetings from Chicago,
Andrius Kulikauskas



	 Help Wanted: Website Editors
_______________________________________________________________

A few times each year we have openings on TeamITC -- our staff
of part-time writers, producers and audio engineers who bring
you The Conversations Network's programs. We've had very little
turnover this year, but with the expansion of our publication
schedule, it's time to add to the team.

* Website Editors

If you'd like to put in a few hours each month writing
descriptions for our programs (and earn a few dollars in the
process) here are the details:

http://newsletters.conversationsnetwork.org/rd/9z1zisugevcc3shrpslg4su8csve4pah2\
m5dafuj2gg

Hi Pamela, Edward, Franz, Ricardo and all,

Greetings from Chicago.  I'll try to write an update every month or so,
what I'm up to.

Meanwhile, I want to shut down the Minciu Sodas server because it's too
expensive for me to pay for it (about $55 per month) and I don't have time
or energy or interest to organize others, nor do I see any commercial
benefit.  I may have a new interest in four or five years, but also will
likely take a fresh approach.

My plan is to upload to http://www.archive.org an archive of my server's
content and code for the Minciu Sodas websites.  I will keep some of the
websites (like http://www.ms.lt and perhaps http://www.worknets.org) but
give up others to those who might be interested to pursue them further
(like http://www.myfoodstory.com, http://www.pyramidofpeace.net,
http://www.includer.org) or otherwise sell the domains.

I plan to stop using the server at the end of July.  That means that our
chat room and wikis won't be available after that.

I expect to direct ms.lt and worknets.org to another server such as Franz
Nahrada's where they might be hosted for free.  This can be done later.

When I find time, especially if there is interest, I will try to make
available an archive of our letters, wiki pages, chat from 1998 to 2010.

Ed, what might be your plans for http://www.earthtreasury.org ?

Greetings from Chicago,

Andrius

Andrius Kulikauskas
Minciu Sodas
http://www.ms.lt
ms@...
+370 699 30003

Didn't work. Wrong email email address for website editors and no reply for
sound editors. Luckily I spent only few hours on this.

Sasha

--- In learningfromeachother@yahoogroups.com, ms@... wrote:
>
> Hi Sasha and all,
> Perhaps you might be interested in the paid work opportunity from
> Conversations Network for website editors ($10 per show), see below.
> Greetings from Chicago,
> Andrius Kulikauskas
>
>
>
>  Help Wanted: Website Editors
> _______________________________________________________________
>
> A few times each year we have openings on TeamITC -- our staff
> of part-time writers, producers and audio engineers who bring
> you The Conversations Network's programs. We've had very little
> turnover this year, but with the expansion of our publication
> schedule, it's time to add to the team.
>
> * Website Editors
>
> If you'd like to put in a few hours each month writing
> descriptions for our programs (and earn a few dollars in the
> process) here are the details:
>
>
http://newsletters.conversationsnetwork.org/rd/9z1zisugevcc3shrpslg4su8csve4pah2\
m5dafuj2gg
>

Dear Sam, Fred, and All,

Oh, how very sad all around, esp on top of Tom's loss too. We are with you both at this hugely difficult time, for Sam the loss of his stepmother, and to Fred for the bombing in Kampala. Ken, thanks so much for sharing beautiful memories of Sam's stepmother:  it makes the loss more sad for us all, but also so uplifting to know something about this wonderful woman.

Let's pray that people will stop seeing bombings and killings, mayhem and destruction as a means to an end. Humanity needs to move towards some higher form of conflict resolution, and nurture a deeper love for peaceful approaches to differences.

In the midst of losses of all kinds, it is good to have friends and companions we can share with, and for whom we care so much! That is what gives us the heart to continue, despite these challenges and sorrows. And that is what we have found here among us:  it is of incomparable value, and we should by all means try to continue what we are doing.

With greatest condolences and support to you both, and again to Tom! Love, Janet

-----Original Message-----
From: Samwel Kongere
Sent: Jul 14, 2010 3:33 AM
To: tom ochuka , Mendenyo Men-denyo , Kennedy Owino
Subject: [mendenyo] Re: to all

Sorry Tom,
I am also having a funeral arrangement for my step mother who passed away on July 12th and we plan to t bury her on 25th July.
It a sad year for us Pole Sana!
Samwel

 

Social Community Network/Information Coordinator,
Suba/Mbita-Kenya
'Aliving hope is desire' When it is socially lived!

---

From: tom ochuka <tomochuka@...>
To: ANDRIUS <holistichelping@yahoogroups.com>; KONGERE <jambita1@...>
Sent: Mon, July 12, 2010 1:01:55 PM
Subject: to all

Dear Friends,
I didnt know how terrible cardiac arrest is untill saturday when my died passed
on ,he actually was strong and didnt any signof dyting,he only breathed last
breath and died.
we are running up and down to plan the funeral due for Next week, the body is at
the Nightanle hospital .
Keep on praying for me ,encouragement,Prayers and any surport is Vital at this
time.
Its really ahd to live without afather who was my fina counselor in matters of
life and deveklopment, Mr Kongere has met him several times and they sahred
light jokes,
God bless you.
Tom Ochuka +254712929029
EMIAL tomochuka@...


     

Hi, I'll write about how I'm doing.  Thank you to Janet Feldman for your
distressing but positive update which I include below.  Samwel Kongere,
Tom Ochuka, I add my sadness to Kennedy Owino's touching letter about your
losing your parents:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/mendenyo/message/3162

Franz Nahrada, thank you for your letter about your thoughts for your
Global Villages server:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalvillages/message/4353  Kiyavilo, thank
you for offering to help as well:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/learnhowtolearn/message/811   My own
wish is to make available in the Public Domain the materials that I and
others have created these last 12 years, but make a fresh start.  This
means that I would like to have the worknets.org/wiki.cgi? pages hosted at
the Global Villages server, but without any more writing there.  If I
could be given SSH access then it would be I think straightforward for me
to migrate those pages there.  I could use whatever ProWiki installation
you have because the changes that I made for myself were minor and only
affected things like logging in.  I would create a read-only template with
links to the new, active pages, wherever they may be.  I don't want to use
ProWiki in the future because it doesn't meet my needs - it is overly
complex - it isn't open source - it doesn't have an active community of
developers - and, perhaps most importantly, it doesn't have a leader for
such a community.  I hope that the Global Villages server might host, free
of charge, the archives for the Minciu Sodas websites.  I think this would
be fair given that setting up the Global Villages server split our
resources and made it untenable for me to host my own server, where I have
been hosting many websites free-of-charge for many years, including
globalvillages.info   Otherwise, I will simply convert the ProWiki pages
to HTML pages and have them hosted by whoever would be willing, perhaps
Kiyavilo.  Franz, please let me know if you'd like to host such an archive
and, if so, please give me some kind of access, preferably SSH.

Kiyavilo, I think that we could start by having me transfer includer.org
to you.  Please sign up for dotster.com and I will transfer it to you as
the owner of the domain.  The charge for the domain will, when it is due,
be about $15 per year and you should be able to move it to another
registry.

Pamela, thank you for your letters, and also for inspiring our chat room
and making such great use of it over the years.  I will be shutting down
our server.  But I can send you a zipped directory with the code.  It
should not be very difficult to set up on the Global Villages server or
Dadamac server or else where.  I'm in the process of reinstalling my own
laptop - it's broken - so I hope that doesn't take too long.

I'm writing from Chicago where I've been working for Ivy League Tutoring
http://www.ivyleaguetutoring.biz for six weeks.  Currently, I'm working
about 30 hours per week, and earning about $3,000 per month, but starting
this fall I hope to work about 40 hours per week and earn $4,000 per
month.  I must pay $1,800 per month for my loan payments, $300 for tax
withholding and Social Security, $400 for rent, so my situation is rather
tight, but if I get more hours, then I should be able to reduce my loans
by about $24,000 per year.  That means in two years I might be able to try
again to work from Lithuania, which is my hope.

I'm living with my friend David Ellison-Bey.  His home was foreclosed in
2008, and unfortunately, was sold just last week.  At some point he'll get
a notice of eviction, that he and I must leave in 30 days.  So today I
looked for places to live in South Shore, the neighborhood where I work.
I'm encouraged that I can find a place, and in time, find other creative
people who would like to live together in an "intentional community" and
do creative projects together.

I'm happy that I'm finding time for my goal in life, which currently is to
do the research needed for organizing a culture of independent thinkers,
and also, staying in touch with my loved ones in Lithuania, and creating
in Lithuanian.  I create a weekly video blog in Lithuanian
http://www.ms.lt/tv/ which I post at Zenonas Anusauskas's internet
television.  Every week I record about 30 minutes of audio of my life
experiences and latest philosophical ideas, then I add to that video
footage from my life in Chicago's South Side.

Philosophically, I'm studying the ways of figuring things out.  Over the
years, I've asked many questions and come up with many answers, but I
think for our culture it's most important to share the methods that I've
used to do that.  I made a diagram relating more than 50 methods:
http://www.worknets.org/upload/AndriusKulikauskas/20100604issiaiskinimaimazas.JP\
G
My work is in Lithuanian.  If there are people who want to commit to be
investigators, then I can offer them some help in English, but my priority
is to focus on Lithuania because that is the language in which I want to
participate, especially given that I'm not paid.  Thank you, Kennedy, for
your letter and appreciation:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/mendenyo/message/3164
I'll try to write updates in English once a month or so - I'm glad if
others do, too - and I'm delighted to encourage other investigators - but
in my mind, there was much too little devotion to investigation at Minciu
Sodas, and this is perhaps the main reason why our culture was too weak to
sustain an economy.

I'm making the most of the great freedom that Adrian Hunter of Ivy League
Tutoring allows me.  I'm teaching reading-writing-English in terms of
writing activities that foster empathy (through the 12 questions)
http://www.earthtreasury.org/wiki.cgi?Empathy
and I'm teaching mathematics in terms of datasheet activities that help us
think in terms of patterns and how they break down:
http://www.earthtreasury.org/wiki.cgi?Quantities

Business-wise, gradually I'll be thinking of how I can make a living from
Lithuania.  My goal these next two years is to write three slim but
intense books (say 150 pages each) explaining how to teach oneself
reading-writing, mathematics, and investigation.  I think they could be a
big part of launching a culture of independent thinkers.

I'm glad for what we've achieved together - thank you all! - but I'm also
happy to start from scratch in practically every way.  Please know that
I'll be doing as little social networking as I can.  But I do care about
all who might work as investigators on their own and with the hope of some
day, working-in-parallel, developing such a culture.

Andrius

Andrius Kulikauskas
Minciu Sodas
http://www.ms.lt
ms@...
+1 (773) 306-3807


> Dear Friends,
>
> My sincere apologies for not being here more often:  the year 2010 has
> proven to be one of the most challenging I have experienced to date, and
> for those who know something about my life, you know that is saying a lot.
>
> I have been hoping to write a longer letter, along the lines of what
> Andrius has written about his situation, but it has been hard to find the
> time, and linked to this is that I am not as comfortable with public
> discussions about my life situation as Andrius is. I share and sympathize
> with your concerns, struggles, frustrations, and longings, Andrius, and am
> sending you "uplift" and "bon courage."
>
> Suffice it to say for now that my father and I are in an extremely
> difficult financial situation, and will most likely be trying to sell our
> home of 50 years and move somewhere smaller within months. I will need to
> find work that pays, too.
>
> I have found it increasingly hard to sustain the energy and spirit needed
> to do full-time caregiving, while also trying to keep my own nonprofit and
> humanitarian work going. My health is being affected now, and I am
> overwhelmed by the immediacies of family life and needs.
>
> Tom, I am very sorry to hear about your father! I am lucky to still have
> mine, but I am preparing--as much as anyone can--to someday say goodbye,
> sooner than later, since my father in 91. I have lost my mother already. I
> and we wish you deepest sympathies and are sending huge support in spirit
> your way, and love and comfort to help you through these difficult days!
>
> I have been doing one project that is close to my heart:  working with a
> group of women to help women and girls in Haiti. We are coming across some
> of the same needs and issues that have been discussed in this forum, and
> that seem to be universal:  lack of equality and the need for same,
> sanitary products, empowerment of women and girls in all spheres of life
> (from the social and economic to the political), violence against women,
> the positive roles men can play in helping to change all this,
> disabilities now affecting a much larger number of people in Haiti,
> post-quake.
>
> Wendi, your letter is very pertinent in this regard:  your need and desire
> for a centre is hugely important, and I hope that you will find the help
> you need to set it up. I cannot help at this time for one of the same
> reasons Andrius has mentioned:  lack of finances. If I see notice of any
> grants or other resources, I will definitely let you know.
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> Mark, Sherrie, and others who have written about Haiti:  there may be more
> of a chance now for me, and also for "us"--as Holistic Helping, Minciu
> Sodas, or as foreigners--to work on some projects related to rebuilding.
> It would be great if you could share anything you have been doing since
> January in this regard, and hopefully we can find a way to link our
> activities.
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> I can't say right now what I can do for sure, because there are so many
> shifts and changes that happen in my life on a regular basis, but I would
> like to explore the possibilities, as well as linking some of the needs
> and issues in Haiti to others around which we have previously worked:
> peace in Kenya, sanitary products and other uplifting projects (like book
> donations) in Zimbabwe, solar power in Cameroon and Africa, economic
> development and environmental sustainability in Tanzania and Palestine
> (and many other parts of the world), ICTs and a focus on preservation and
> utilization of local knowledge in Nigeria, the struggles of farmers in
> India and globally (perhaps linked to "My Foodstory"), and the challenges
> faced by people with differing abilities, in Kenya and everywhere in the
> world.
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> I look forward to connecting, sharing, and hopefully finding ways to
> create, build, grow, and dream. I do read the posts at HH and other
> forums, so please know that any silence on my part is not from lack of
> caring and interest, only lack of time and physical wherewithal.
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> With love and blessings to all, Janet

Ok thanks to all,
I am writing this mail to appreciate the condolences we have received so far! As
we intergect on funeral & burial; a lot is there to be done in reference to our
traditions and cultures, that is the essence of cultural values.
I have not forgotten with the community work and primary health care research. I
am asking myself why so many deaths in our area at this time? At a meeting with
community leaders we tried find out the cause of deaths, if it could be malaria,
typhoid, food or weather? The answer has to be found with researchers both local
and international, scientists, educationists, health workers, information
specialists and communal leaders.
Thanks to all your supportive letters, life we still need kind and financial
support to help this soceity.
Bye!
Samwel.

On Thu Jul 15th, 2010 7:31 AM Etc/GMT+12 Janet Feldman wrote:

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> Oh, how very sad all around, esp on top of Tom's loss too. We are with you
both at this hugely difficult time, for Sam the loss of his stepmother, and to
Fred for the bombing in Kampala. Ken, thanks so much for sharing beautiful
memories of Sam's stepmother:  it makes the loss more sad for us all,
but also so uplifting to know something about this wonderful woman.
> Let's pray that people will stop seeing bombings and killings, mayhem and
destruction as a means to an end. Humanity needs to move towards some
higher form of conflict resolution, and nurture a deeper love for peaceful
approaches to differences.
> In the midst of losses of all kinds, it is good to have friends and companions
we can share with, and for whom we care so much! That is what gives us the heart
to continue, despite these challenges and sorrows. And that is what we have
found here among us:  it is of incomparable value, and we should by all
means try to continue what we are doing.
> With greatest condolences and support to you both, and again to Tom! Love,
Janet
>-----Original Message-----  From: Samwel Kongere  Sent: Jul 14, 2010 3:33 AM 
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Pole Sana! Samwel
>    Social Community Network/Information
Coordinator,Suba/Mbita-Kenya'Aliving hope is desire' When it is socially
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>From: tom ochuka <tomochuka@yahoo. com> To: ANDRIUS <holistichelping@
yahoogroups. com>; KONGERE <jambita1@yahoo. com> Sent: Mon, July 12,
2010 1:01:55 PM Subject: to all  Dear Friends, I didnt know how terrible cardiac
arrest is untill saturday when my died passed  on ,he actually was strong and
didnt any signof dyting,he only breathed last  breath and died. we are running
up and down to plan the funeral due for Next week, the body is at  the Nightanle
hospital . Keep on praying for me ,encouragement, Prayers and any surport is
Vital at this  time. Its really ahd to live without afather who was my fina
counselor in matters of  life and deveklopment, Mr Kongere has met him several
times and they sahred  light jokes, God bless you. Tom Ochuka +254712929029
EMIAL tomochuka@yahoo. com        
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