Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:58:00 -0700 (PDT)
    Forwarded by: Ndebele Okoth for Atieno Otieno

Nyikwa Ramogi,
 
Please circulate widely… and let us hear your responses and proposals…
 
If we, Nyikwa Ramogi can divide ourselves into clusters representing our “towns” where we live (in Kenya and in the diaspora), and we decide on an amount of money to be contributed monthly, then we can raise the standards of living for our people in a very short time span.
 
Picture this:
 
Nyikwa Ramogi in Arusha (where I am), Dar es Salaam, Mwanza, Addis, Johannesburg, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, London, Atlanta, Brussels, Paris, Texas, Ohio, Toronto, etc… (worldwide) decide to contribute monthly figures of lets say Ksh. 5,000.  Let’s say we end up being 5000 serious contributors, we can raise Kshs. 25 million per month.  Imagine how much development this money can do.
 
In the meantime, we conduct a research to see what each District needs as a matter of priority.  Things that go through my mind are:

    * harvesters
    * tractors
    * borehole drilling machines
    * public transport within the region (subsidized where our people pay a minimal amount)
    * a ferry or two or three
    * fishing boats
    * build cold rooms all around the lake
    * build fish processing factories
    * purchase refrigerated trucks
    * build more schools (primary, secondary)
    * build teacher training colleges with our very own professors giving lectures
    * build and equip hospitals
    * have mobile clinics

The list is endless.  What we can do for example, is the borehole machines can be used all over Luoland to dig boreholes.  Our own vijana can do the work.  Our own engineers can supervise the work.  Depending on the rain pattern, we can use tractors to dig the shambas for our people on a rotating basis.  We can have several of these based in every corner of Luoland.
 
We can help with the setting up of bio diesel projects… We can get help to generate wind power and solar energy can also be harnessed… Surely, we can do anything that we put our mind to… Do you see where I am going with all this?  We can buy land and plant trees and harvest them and generate income…  We will have done our own majimbo and without the government’s help.  Nyikwa Ramogi are in every corner of the globe and we have access to knowledge on how to go about any of these projects..  We can do it and the time to do it is NOW.
 
A first step would be to create a database of our people back home… we need to send a form or questionnaire for people to fill so that we know exactly what sort of manpower skills we have in our midst at the local level.  In other words, register all the able bodied men and women and find out what skills they possess.  We then would need to do the same in our different clusters or towns… I am sure we can come up with an amazing database.
 
I know we have many jobless graduates who are teachers, engineers (road, water, construction), agriculturalists, etc.  Once we know what skills we possess, we see how to go about starting off.  The good thing is that with the amount of money that we will be able to raise monthly, we can have several projects running at the same time.  Our people will no longer be jobless… that will be a thing of the past.
 
We will need Fund Managers to handle the finance, administration and logistic operations… We need people with experience to draw up some proposals…  I think we need to circulate this idea widely so that we can get the necessary insights needed to achieve our goal of uplifting the standards of living of our people.  In a way, we will be uplifting our community collectively and simultaneously so that no region will be left behind.
 
I particularly like the idea of free transport.  In other words, we purchase the buses, we pay the drivers and conductors, we fuel the vehicles and our people travel for free so that no one is left behind.  Everyone is equal without bias….  All this with our monthly contributions… Nyikwa Ramogi let us own this project.  Together, we shall overcome.
 
Please share your thoughts.
 
If there is a better forum for discussing this, please let me have the website.  Alternatively, please use your yahoo or hotmail addresses when responding to avoid using the email at our workplaces…
 
Many thanks.
 
Atieno Otieno
22 January 2008
Rev Okoth Otura,
President/Founder,
Christian Democratic Movement of Kenya-(CDMK) &
East Africa Christians Transformation Mission Fellowship-(EACTMF)
CANADA
www.cdmk.org
www.eactmf.org

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