Sunday, February 26, 2017

A New Way of Thinking - A Response to Hunger

A NEW WAY OF THINKING FOR KENYA : 



Famine and drought have become a big tragedy in Kenya. Many people including innocent children are under torture; so too, cattle and wild animals. For long we have fought against these with little success. Can we find a better way to keep ourselves alive? If we are the masters of our own lives, then we cannot expect the universe to automatically provide for us. If we believe our world has enough for all our needs then we must find ways to feed ourselves. It doesn’t matter how big the challenge, planet earth will render to us all what we need in abundance, not in partiality. 

Kenyans have a tendency to look at what they want and say, “yes, I like that.” They will say for example they want enough food and a good environment to live.  But in fact, they look at what they don't want; and, what energizes them is the idea that they can stamp it out, eliminate or obliterate it. As Kenyans we have become content with fighting against things: hunger, drought etc. We tend to fight everything we don't want which actually creates more of a fight with no solution. 

Anything we focus on we can create. Kenyans create hunger and drought by focusing on these. We talk and complain about these pandemics much than we are grateful for the good things we have in our country. When we are angry at hunger and drought that already exists we are adding negative energy to the situation. We are pushing ourselves and that only creates resistance. We forget that what we resist will persist. Resisting supports a strong emotion of, 'I really don't want it ' and then it comes racing towards you instead. 



Resistance to anything is like trying to change outside pictures after they have been transmitted into reality. It is a futile pursuit. Kenyans need to go within and emit a new signal with their thoughts and feelings to create a new picture : abundance of food, enough rain, good environments, more crop and cattle production. We need to stop resisting what has appeared in order not to add more energy and power to those pictures of hunger that we don't like. 

Focusing on negative thoughts - hunger and drought, is not helpful. We will just be adding to it negativity and bring more of the negatives in our own lives. Now is the time to change this way of thinking and emit a new signal. We are not powerless, we are able to defeat the enemy through a positive approach.

Let's focus on every Kenyan being joyful, living in abundance and in a good environment. Let's focus our powerful thoughts on what is wanted and not  the unwanted. Despite the challenges around us, we have the ability to give much to the world by emitting feelings of love and well being. Once we know what we want we must find a way to get there.

Energy flows where attention goes. I believe that before CES CANADA and CES KENYA decided to support needy students to acquire vital education in agriculture economics, engineering and agriculture extension, their first thought was to provide the education and important knowledge to encourage youth to study in the agriculture sector.

CES Canada and CES Kenya have focused on the positive of what is needed in our communities - education, water, nutrition and health. It is now up to some of us as scholarship recipients to learn how to live in abundance. Education is the key. With that education we can now focus on agriculture. CES has discovered the secret, 'the law of attraction that like attracts like.'  Good thoughts attract good things in one’s life and bad thinking brings forth more bad events and circumstances that will cause more bad things to occur.

When the voice and vision on the inside becomes more profound, clearer and louder than the opinions on the outside, we then have greater control. As Kenyans we have the ability to learn about agriculture. All citizens have the ability to practice it and conserve the environment and even provide room for adequate rain. I am not saying we have the ability to fully eliminate hunger and drought. But we can do something about it through strategic planning and focused action. Let us listen to our inner voice so we can use the knowledge we have to bring abundance and have a comfortable life.

We Kenyans should treat the universe like a catalogue. In this way we are not going to run out of stuff and bust the bank. The secret is that there is more than enough to go around for everybody. Let us just focus our minds on what we want. There is a lie that acts like a virus within the mind  of humanity. This is, 'there is not enough good to go round.'  Kenyans are living in  fear, greed and stinginess due to the lie. Oh! Negative thoughts. The truth is that there is more than enough food and rain. All good begins as the mind becomes aware of its own infinite nature. 



Let Kenyans think abundance, see abundance, feel abundance, believe in abundance. Let no thought of limitations enter our minds. And so just when we think that resources are dwindling, we see rain is abundance, an environment that is favourable for enough crop and cattle production, and we find new resources to achieve the same things. Nothing is limited - not even resources or anything else. The only limitation is the human mind. When we open our minds to the unlimited creative power, we will call forth abundance and see and experience a new Kenya! 


There is enough for everyone. God has provided all we need in life. The Creator also expects human beings to care for planet Earth. We have the ability to choose what we want to experience. Do we want plenty for everyone?  Each of us has ability to tap into the unlimited invisible supply through our thoughts and feelings and bring it into our experience. So let Kenyans choose, not only because they can but because they must.

Sharon Nawire Walekhwa
2nd year Agriculture Engineering
Egerton University, Kenya

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

I Found Him a Victor

It dawns on me to announce
the great global conflict of war
1st September 1939
Hitler sparked an invasion of Poland
to count six years of blood and death

Like eagles high in the sky
soldiers from East Africa rose
joining hands with Allied nations
chose peace and love for all
to fight for freedom and save a life

I pause to point out his determination
in the African King's Rifles he uttered
"I am more than my scars!"
Joseph, you stand a strong hero
for there is no illusion greater than fear

In your honour, Mr. Inima
we remember the best who participated
from Canada, Kenya, Britain and Denmark
I choose to mourn in prayer
for the demise of the heroes and heroines
who can tell their stories of valour and courage?


I hear a voice of love in the world
from England and across the borders
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
honoured you together with your troop
for the bitter roots that you tested
and end up sharing fruits in love

Freedom comes with a price
we celebrate the victory of your battle
to defeat both Germany and Japan
though it was the deadliest war
you finalized to the super powers


Long live your excellence, Mr Inima
to us you mean more than words can express
you stood to fight a good fight
in you our limbs get strong
to take a flight for today
and see the latter of our destiny
for I have found you a victor

I cherish the Canadian government
the veterans department and armed forces
dear CES Canada and CES Kenya
from the young to the rest of my colleagues
we owe you a great debt of gratitude



Sheilah Kakuma Nasindu
CES Kenya Alumnus



3rd July 2016 a Canadian volunteer team - Captain (Ret) Dennis D. White, Renee Rerup, Senem Ozkin, and Michael Frederiksen along with thirty members of the CES Kenya Alumnus and CES Kenya Directors witnessed a ceremony in honour of Joseph Inima.  98 year old Joseph Inima WO1, his wife and extended family and many of his 134 grand children were there to welcome the CES visitors. During the presentations Sheilah gave the above dramatic poem that ended in a standing ovation.

Sunday, July 31, 2016

LEADERSHIP - Does it Really Matter?


In great ability lies responsibility
The vision bearer leads
Mobilizing doers, that one is a leader.

The one burdened by responsibility 
Looking out for others
Leaders are born, some are made
What matters is what they become.

Troubled by the problems of the people
Hunger, Poverty, Health, Education;
Leadership, rarely depending on gender
It acts against the status quo.

Those who spend sleepless nights
The welfare of others on their mind
Motivating each step and move
Like Moses and Aaron their exodus from Egypt
Following the Dream to the Promised Land.

Those who willingly embrace positive change
Like Martin Luther King and Mandela of our time
True shepherds of the flock
Gentle tenders of the weak
Wearing the mantle of compassion
They see through the window of the soul
Making sense out of non-sense.

A leader
Out of void creating beauty
Identifying scholars from humble society
Triggering motion from stagnation
Daring to mention the unmentionable
Touching the untouchable
Voice of the people
Captive to the truth
Slave to reason and rationality
Whose dignity is beyond reproach.


Are you that leader - CES Alumnus
Embracing leadership as a precious gift?

Leadership...does it really matter?

Viewtone Achaga
CES Kenya Scholar, Alumnus
University of Nairobi

Sunday, April 24, 2016

CES Was There

From my heart I tell my story
Similar to yours as you share with me
I was in need of education
CES was there

I lived in poverty without hope
No school fees
Banished from school
Lost
Nowhere to be counted
Education a long forgotten dream
CES was there

Once a street child with no front or back
Nameless without any identity 
CES was there

To sponsor me, love me, care for me

How did it all start?
Who brought CES into existence
It must have been God

The future
Once engulfed by thick dark clouds 
Is now much brighter
There is hope to cure wounded hearts
Marvellous, wonderful, awesome

From my heart to yours
CES was there




Sharon Nawire Walekhwa
Year 1 Egerton University

B.Sc. Engineering

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

True Leadership

Funded by the Peter Cundill Foundation, Viewtone Achaga is a recipient of a CES Canada Leadership Scholarship. He is in the first year of the B.Sc. Degree Program at Nairobi University.



Leadership

In great ability lies responsibility
The vision bearer is a leader
The one who mobilizes doers
Burdened by the cares of seeing for other
Troubled by the problems of people
Hunger, poverty, health, education, justice
That person is a leader

Leadership rarely depends on gender
Taking on and challenging the status quo
Leaders are born, some are made
What matters is what they become
Every position and every capacity of service is
Leadership in one way or another

Those who spend sleepless nights
With interests of others on their mind
Motivating their every step and move
Like Moses and Aaron of Exodus long ago
Malik Khaemba of Ces-Kenya
Achaga Viewtone of the future

Those who identify and embrace positive change
The dynamics of life
Radical reformers like Dr. Martin Luther King
Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Ghandi, 
True Shepherds of the flock
Rightful bearers of the banners
Champions of the weak
Those who have earned the mantle
Those with eyes to see, ears to hear
Those who distinguish sense from non-sense
True Leaders

Those who out of void create substance
Creating scholars from the humble in society
Who trigger motion from stagnation
Dares to mention the unmentionable
Calls a spoon by its name
One who is enslaved by reason and integrity
I am talking about a leader, are you?


Yes, a leader
Captive to the truth
One whose dignity is beyond reproach
Whether an individual or a group
Ces-Kenya/Canada and others
that embrace leadership, leading by example

Leadership, either created or born
The voice of the people
Who Cares
Does it really matter?



by:Viewtone Achaga
Ces-Kenya/Canada scholar

Universtiy of Nairobi 03/2016

Sunday, March 13, 2016

I Cry...I Cry



I cry I cry
Looking at our life in the village
Graves all over
Breadwinners no more due to HIV/AIDS pandemic
Widows are stigmatized.

I cry I cry
Parents go to the city
Children left alone
To take care of younger siblings
Not one to offer parental guidance.

I cry I cry
Education is of less value here
Girls drop out of school due to early pregnancies
High cases of abortion
Prostitution becomes an option.

I cry I cry
Basic needs a by the way
A meal a day is all they get
Kwashiokor is normal here
Jiggers form houses in legs.

I cry I cry
Lord help me
Let me be the change here
It might not be a big one
That's my vision and prayer
Let cries turn into smiles
Smiles into laughter
Amen.

Linda Mwanaisha Wabwire
CES Kenya Grad (Maryhill Girls HS, 2012)
Year 3 Kibabii University - Agricultural Science




Friday, August 28, 2015

Life With CES

LIFE WITH CES

Pain and poverty is part of life
Every day was a new journey for us
Full of adventure, full of discovery,
We kept our thoughts raised high,
For we could not manage to despair our hope

Arriving there was what we were destined for,
Not hurrying the journey at all
Keeping a standard pace not to fall,
For it is better if it lasts for years,
So we are old when we reach there,
Wealthy with all we have gained on the way

CES gave as a marvellous journey,
Without her we would not have set out
And if we find CES poor
It won’t have fooled us
Wise as we would have become
So full of experience to understand
What it really meant by CES in our lives

Hope the voyage is a long one
May there be summer morning when
With what pleasure, what joy
All along from the CES foundation
We come into a habour seen for the first time
To rejoice for what CES has done

Until we rise like eagles
To be witnesses of who you are
Showing your excellence to our country
Through projects and initiatives
Intended to change the poor Kenyan culture
A proof to support vision 2030



Many are the CES graduates
A stream of joy flows in their hearts
Little they knew about education
But now they shine like stars
Having excelled in their secondary courses
Ready to join higher institutions

Under the umbrella of CES
Witness CES Graduate Alumni Group
Led by our patron Pendo Lugalia
Together with Benson Wafula and Musli Wetende
Higher we all rise again
A symbol of love and unity
To care for a few that have lost hope

Giving out the little we have
Subject to facilitate our own projects
Meant to keep the alumni group alive
And later form a care unit for the rest
Whose future has remained to be dreams

Thanks be to the CES volunteers
Who have managed to bring us this year
Your love and passion I feel
Pain and poverty are now gone
For you have made an impact in our lives
To create hope that will never fail

On behalf of my dear collegues
Having seen furthest ends
I lack the words of expression
To show our gratitude in your presence
For your care no one has ever seen
And your love no one has ever felt


Sheilah Nasindu  (CES Grad 2012)                                                                        August 2015
Year 2 Education Studies - Kibabii University