from gordon teti

Dear my fellow Kenyans,

I am grateful and look forward to working together united with you in the days, weeks, months and years to come. Change that we desire and are working to bring in Kenya is monumental; every Kenyan has to play their part and every support counts from all quarters, including our international partners and friends of Kenya.

On Sunday, December 12, 2010 at 1.27 pm, an idea was born in a tiny apartment in Toronto, Canada by a group of concerned Kenyans. Organizing for Kenya (OFKEN) was born. OFKEN is a citizen’s coalition for real and meaningful change for our country. OFKEN is a grassroot’s movement by the Kenyan people from every region of the country who are coming together as citizens of Kenya and not as tribes to build a country that cares for all of its citizens irrespective of social status, gender or age. OFKEN is determined for a rebirth of our beloved country, KENYA.

OFKEN is a movement by Kenyans who want their country back. The country has suffered for generations from the hands of few elites who think that they own the key to the Kenyan state. OFKEN is determined to take the country back to the masses who own it.

The work of making Kenya a better place for all, especially to our children and the children of our children, is an enormous task that requires concerted and collaborative effort from all of us, every Kenyan, who feels the pain of our country; Kenya is bleeding and soon, if Kenyans do not act, the country will be dead and buried.

The work ahead of us is monumental; the climb will be hard but for the love of the country rather than self we are determined to save our country. However, the work of rebuilding Kenya requires collective partnership. OFKEN will be stronger when it joins hands with you to work together as an associate and partner in making Kenya a caring country for all of us and not just for a few privileged class of people.

Please, for the love of your country, join the movement; become a member of OFKEN; sign-up today by sending an invitation on facebook to Gordon Teti or e-mail at tetigordon@yahoo.ca. Encourage your friends to join as well.

As their compatriots, fellow citizens, back home in Kenya, the Kenyans behind OFKEN worry every day about the living conditions of their mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers and neighbours who are back in Kenya. For every communication that comes from Kenya it is about an appeal for help. It is about stories touching on the most basic needs of a people: food, clothing, tuition, medicine, insecurity. On and on and on the list is endless. Life in Kenya has become a nightmare, unbearable to many.

While governments cannot do everything for people, it is the duty of a responsible government to put structures in place to empower the citizens. A government that cannot ensure that citizens are able to obtain the most basic needs for survival, food on the table, has no moral authority to be in power.

Since Kenya today claims to be a democracy, political power that the Kenyan political elites are exercising belongs to the people. Kenyans have a right to take it back if and when they feel that those exercising this responsibility have failed to deliver.

In responding to the suffering of the Kenyan people that OFKEN was born to work on solutions that will make the lives of Kenyans a little better. It is nice to be in the league of men and women who stand for something. The world is made up of many who believe in the ideology of the stomach. Such people are never part of the movement that changes the course of history for the better.

OFKEN is speaking on behalf of the many voiceless fellow citizens. OFKEN is determined more than ever before in making Kenya a country for all and not just for the few rich people. OFKEN salutes you for the courage and the love of country instead of self and thank you so much for your patriotism and love for your country.

Together united, OFKEN is going to change the way politics is done in Kenya. Kenyans are saying it loud and clear that there will be NO more politics as usual; NO more politics of impunity.

In the coming few months, OFKEN will be launched in Nairobi during which a blue print for the Movement will be unveiled for our country. Please, this Movement is a citizen’s coalition for real and meaningful change for our country.

OFKEN is a grassroot’s movement by the Kenyan people from every region of the country who are coming together as citizens of Kenya and not as tribes to build a country that cares for its citizens. OFKEN is a movement by Kenyans who want their country back. The country has suffered for generations from the few elites who think that they own the key to the Kenyan state. OFKEN is determined to take the country back to the masses who own it.

Our motto is UKABILA MBAYA ISHINDWE (To hell with negative tribalism).

I am on facebook and you can also follow me twitter. For my story, please visit: www.lornachildrenfoundationkenya.com

God bless you and your family,

May God bless the Republic of Kenya.

Thank you.

Gordon Teti, Interim Coordinator
Organizing for Kenya (OFKEN) &
Founder and CEO
Lorna Children’s Foundation Kenya Fund(LCF-Kenya)
109-896 Eglinton Avenue East
Toronto, Ontario M4G 2L2
Canada
Tel. 1-647-341-0438
E-mail: tetigordon@yahoo.ca
www.lornachildrenfoundationken?ya.com