Or is it some kind of financial help?
As you ponder about that, there is one thing I do know for sure.
Each and anyone of us that is willing can in one way or another contribute towards making this world a better place to live, work and die, irrespective of their circumstances. Of course you don't have to be Ophrah, Bill Gates or some kind of charitable organization in order to qualify and get started. It is this little things we do that eventually add up.
Ordinary life
Most Kenyans wake up early each and every day and work hard.
We toil hard, tilling our small exhausted lands.
You will see us digging, prunning or harvesting our crops or maybe chipping those stones in quarries.
We walk across the city to industrial area to work on those factories, jua kali shops or flower farms.
Most of us are ordinary casual laborers.
We earn less than $1 a day. Yep! $1 a day.
Usually we work hard the whole day, for the rich.
Oh by the way...
They only make up less than 10% of the population. The rest? that's us.
Would you like to know what we do for them?
Each day we work hard and make a difference in their lives by making theirs a better day.
How to Make a Diffference.
Here are some of the things we do: We clean their homes, baby sit their children, wash their clothes and cook for them. And at night we stay outside in the cold guarding their homes as they comfortably sleep inside their warm homes.
Few of us get lucky though; we get hired into their companies where we do clerical, administrative or managerial work. The extremely lucky amongst us join their groups and rank by securing that professional or managerial job, but that is a story for another time.
So you thought we are only laborers?
No you are wrong, we are also entrepreneurs. You will see us hawking products in the streets, where at times it gets ugly. To survive we resort to hide and seek games with the local administrative authorities for fear or being arrested.
Through extremely hard work, some of us are able to raise a bit of capital that enables us
to operate from our own kiosks, or run all sorts of entrepreneur activities.
By now you must be thinking...oh these are just a bunch of illiterates and semi- illiterates?
You might even be having a word of advice...you fool, why not just go to college and things might be much better after that!
No my friend,
You might be in for suprises!
Lack of jobs kenya
Most of us have high school diplomas, a lot of us have college certificates and as a matter of fact in recent years more and more university graduates are joining our ranks in high numbers.
I will tell you a secret...shhh, are you ready? (I'm going to whisper...shh, I don't want them to hear me say this or else I might get in trouble) The only unifying and common factor in all of us it that we all so happened to be born to; should I say the wrong economy? Read that to mean into a poor family.
This is how my friends sum it up: it's all about connections, there are far too many of us chasing too few job openings. No Connections no job!!?
Make A Difference.
I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Ettiene De Grellet
Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-11-04
As I was saying, for now we must first work hard and try to get something for our empty stomach. The truth of the matter is that unless we start doing something else to uplift our livelihood, we risk the inevitable! Trapped poor man's quagmire;
We sincerely need your assistance.
See how you can make a difference on someone today.
