Monday, August 4, 2008

I don’t need to be bill gates or warren buffet!

I don’t need to be bill gates or warren buffet!

Yes , I really don’t need to be gates or buffet or just the average day millionaire  to help the poor. It starts then from here, that is within yourself. I'm talking about giving and beta creative capitalism. Its already happening and will help save our African brothers and sisters who are unfortunate, some are just very lazy have given up in this race. Life itself is a race, we should strive to outlive ourselves and eat life with big spoons, I got a big set of them, do you?

What I was saying is about giving and the Why not! You can do a pennywise deal and offer a shilling with an idea to it. We have family and friends who are in need of help, we may be learned and rich, not necessarily bright and wealthy; the difference between the two colours in the world, black and white. Black is deemed to be rich and white is wealthy. Lets go on, the average help required is less than what we think and estimate, this is to the family and friends who are without any average sweet life, they call it less than a dollar a day life. To add to the list of those we can help as a sweet substitute is strangers, friendly strangers who can be new friend or acquaintances, the latter mostly emerge as better people to work with and help as I have experienced although there is a perceived higher risk, risk is every where.

If you can spare a small capital of 1,000 you can provide business capital injection to the kiosk guy near you for exapmle Mama mboga; that’s your grocer, the one next to you with a rusty or dilapidated wooden construction.

What she has is a nice opportunity but she faces every day trials (emergencies and misfortunes)and can underperform at work since if she is faced with a trial, say a sick one, she loses a lot of time, money and this is a set back ten time more than you can face mainly because she has no savings but you got some. Long story short; she lack items that you might need and she will often tell you -zimeisha sasa- that its just got over. What if, you build rapport and help her run the business, you can inject 500 or 1,000 and she can bring more groceries at you door step. This she can repay you in installments weekly perhaps and you can evaluate the risk of giving her more support or not. Try it with your favourite grocer or kiosk guy who has somewhat entrepreneurial skills?

Let me give you the buffet of help; you give a shilling plus an business idea or a business incentive with a sound strategic plan. The for desert offer a flexible return on the money lent, better than the average day bank that has become a sly shylock.


 

Sunday, February 10, 2008

kenya loves china instead

Kenya loves china, I know its sounds weird, Its best put this way, Kenya loves china, period.

but just as it is, we have appreciated all they have to give and extend as either cooperation and development.

We have a mutual love relationship, Kenya gives this and the Chinese gives us that, you

know just like a husband and wife relation where the man provides the food, rent, bills and so forth, china is the husband and Kenya plays the sweet wife, honey I'm home, where is the food, im hungry.

So we cook, we do it passionately, clean the house, wash the dishes, do the laundry, just like the average house wife. Wow, china is just lucky to have Kenya, may God bless them till death do them apart

Sunday, October 28, 2007

creative help

I want to preach water and take water.I want to help the poor and disadvantaged. I think I dont have to be rich, I need to reach those poor around me first. I have to say this, we can help the poor out from their misery if we want to, I want to help. (IW2H) I am speaking out my mind.
Lets here out the cries of the poor and act to help them OUT. Say a group of like minded people in my country ventured out and sought for answers to help the poor, in different parts of the country, they will return with similar views on how to go about it. We need to give the poor the basics needs in life Food, Clothing and Shelter(FC&S). Only three things. This are things that we find others with excesses, sometimes unnecessary excesses.
I have tried this (searching for answers)and I know you too would have similar solutions too as mentioned herein below; primarily to help the poor, we will start by you and me extending our resources(FC&S) , sharing our extras, encouraging them and empowering them with ideas.
In the sharing view for instance, we have old clothes, those tight fitting ones that we have stopped using, those shoes that we think are now out of fashion, this we need to give out. We could go on to give out some food resources in grain or flour, or perhaps even better and really thoughtful subsidized cost on basic food like maize flour, milk, wheat flour, cooking fat, at least the basics. This kind actions happen ocassionally. Thanks to those who do these acts of humanity, God bless.
I addressing situations seriouly, long lasting solutions, education is or can be a basic need in this modern world, so it goes without saying too that we can share book resources too. The old books used in the 8.4.4.can be given out, we are out to create a reading culture or nation in the long run.

kreative kenya

The key to human empowerment is generosity, a virtue so forgotten and replace by greed in our leaders.
I look forward to the day that we shall have the true leader in our country, a leader who will truly empower the middle class as well as the poor down the ladder. A leader who will have the commonness in his people, one that will place structure to benefit the disadvantaged and the list goes on and on.The latter can only happen if and only if we got a selfless leader, perhaps we should bring one up, school him in leadership from tender age and create an environment for goodness based virtues to diffuse in him. We can do that if we are patient, I am patient in fact, very patient and for sure there cannot miss a few out there.This is what the south africans, ANC old guards, including a Mr. Mbeki did and the product, the current president Thambo Mbeki.
Why not try this in Kenya, I would the result be a mature, well cultured and at least an open minded person.