MISS MULI DRIVE

come lets put a smile on a childs face 13 counties are affected by poor long rains in Kenya today. More than 10,000 livestock have died in a span of 3 months in Ganze, kilifi county following a prolonged drought. Residents are forced to trek a distance of over 30km to reach Renji dam, which is now the only remaining source of water but also believed to be drying up quickly. Some residents claim that this situation has forced their children to drop out of school as they do not have money to cater schools due to the death of their livestock which is their their only revenue. KUTOA NI MOYO A survey by KNA in kaloleni, ganze and kilifi north earlier this year established a total crop failure as all maize planted during the months of April and may dried up immaturely. The kilifi county executive member in charge for agriculture, livestock development and fisheries,  said the county is likely to face a severe shortage of food especially in semi-arid parts of Ganze,

On this Christmas eve Where all neighbors Prepare for the long awaited day This one Christmas Their kids hang on their Christmas stocking Filled with small presents All laughing and shouting happily This one Christmas Christmas finally gets here They all have their Christmas pudding While we just stared This one Christmas Our home looked abandoned There was no pudding No Christmas tree This one Christmas Husband of mother was not home No single cent at home No signs of celebrations at home This one Christmas Mother sat back quietly and lonely Mother was sad We all were This one Christmas lets play Mary, Joseph and Jesus Mother took us to church Seeing them kids play Mary, Joseph and Jesus Got us manage a smile This one Christmas It would have been different thou If only husband of mother Would settle with ONE family This one Christmas

You don't  get to choose if you get hurt in this world,  but you do have a say in who hurts you.  And I like my choices. And so people fall in love,  get mad at each other,  fight and get back together?  As for me, the urge to live with another human being for the rest of my life has always puzzled me. " Why do you hate me?  I didn't know that's what you felt about me!  I hope one day you will realize how much I love you such that hate for you doesn't exist in my heart.  I do love you very much but we need some time to figure out about what we want in this relationship because currently it seems we don't even solve our issues when we talk. " " I packed my bags hoping you'd unpack them.  When you said that I'll wake up in the morning and find everything at it's  place,  I felt a relief,  that we were finally good only to wake up and find them still packed as if to mean I should go.  If you wonder why I did not leave,  it&

We had different sorts of curriculum activities: all the usual ones that you too have had in your school plus gymnastics. This was my favorite. Do not misquote me here. I did not say I participated. I just loved watching them make those stunts. At least they kept fit. They used to miss some classes, first priority in surplus and got twice the fruits we the rest got. So I envied them. I am really thirsty. I want to take a bath. I want to wash my clothes. I need water. Water? Yes water, has been a rare commodity now in our school as at the entire people of Makueni for a long period due to lack of heavy rains, maybe, that is believed to sustain the residents before the next rainy season. Everyone was crying for water. It was bad. The cooks had to limit us from even drinking water. No one was allowed near the water tanks. We’d make ques to be served water. You had to be satisfied by all means since there was no addition, surplus, as we called second rounds on meals.

    I want a ride home I was now two weeks old in the school and the matron could no longer wash my clothes. Not because i learnt how to do my laundry but because I had two std.8 girls fighting for me. He he i just wanted to say that...cause it feels nice. Right?     Ndunge got me from my first morning in the school as she argued out and now Esther, argued herself out that she's from the coast. I couldn't choose. They were all nice. I was just there like a little princess. Did i forget to say shaven? Yes shaven. Bald. Everyone was. You should see my ears when bald. Satellite.     thanks to Ndunge I had a nice stay   Okay. I always had clean clothes. My suitcase well arranged. Never bullied. Was i a pet? I don't know. But one thing i never got used to in this school is the FOOD and my home sick got stronger each day. "Mimi sili sima ya kuungua. Sinywi uji. Sili pojo. Sili hiki, sili kile..." It was my daily song. It's funny how

i love my school "Brrrrrrrrhbruuuuuuh" I woke up to the sound of this which i later learnt it was the school generator. No electricity here? Scratch that, that's not our story. I stretched before I opened my eyes. " Hey, sasa ?" That was the girl standing beside my bed and my reply was, " Why are people waking up in the middle of the night ?" She laughed saying it was already 4 o'clock. Time for morning preps. Okay! I was learning some new vocabularies here. But wait, 4 o'clock? Ain't this some typa oppression? I hardly had sleep the whole night, please lemme sleep. I stoop up, the blankets fell down my body. My feet tingled from the pressure of standing, they must have fallen asleep. Ndunge, as she introduced herself, walked me outside to the bathroom. What am I seeing here? All of them there were naked. In that spacious corridor of the washrooms. There were like 4 bathrooms and since it couldn't ac

      Today it wasn't normal at my house. It was the D day. My day. My bags packed with my NEW everything and a wooden 'box' as the school requested.   And there I was, making faces to my brother, laughing at him that he didn't have any new things as I had. He just starred as if to say "woiye baby sis I just wish you knew what awaits you" But I didn't care, I was going to UKAMBANI school, with my new SHOES. I'm going to beat them all in exam, those kamba kids. Exam results was my pride, more so in Mathematics. So I'm going to show them. I kept telling myself.     The whole ride from Wote town, where I put on my NEW uniform on, was silent. Not one word was spoken. We all kept our thoughts to ourselves until we came to a stop. That's when I realised we were parked outside the school's gate. I turned to my parents just to confirm they are going to sleep in the school compound too and they did. Bingo! I had totally nothin

      "Nani anataka kwenda boarding school?" My mother asked as we just sat there starring at her wondering what she meant by boarding school. Oh! And so it happened I was the only one who didn't understand as my brother replied saying he would never to to boarding and if it reached a time for him to be in high school then my parents should be living in the neighbouring.     So now my parents turned to me with a warm smile, explained what it meant by boarding school. The fact that I'd leave behind my new friends, ( in case i forgot to mention, we were just a few months old in this town #80403 so i managed to pick out a few friends in the school i was at ), made me be hesitant. "You will have new uniforms, new shoes, anything that you'll want you'll have it new" that's my father saying. My brother just shook his head as if to pity me.     Mmmh...new shoes! I thought to myself. I've always wanted to have these bata toug

    Suppose you were a stage artiste and you were to play the role of a woman, though you are actually a man.   Don't be ashamed to call quits on bad habits      You would put on a woman's dress and wig, talk and perform like a woman. But you will not forget that you are a man at the end of the act.   You would eventually get off the stage and go back to the dressing room, change into your real clothes and walk down the street. When you set out to work on Monday morning, you will talk and live like a man. It would be ridiculous for you to go back to work talking and behaving like a woman, the way you did on your role play the other night. The same thing applies to you now. You acted in the wrong way before you knew it was wrong ( I'm not saying being a woman is a bad thing ) but now you have a new life that makes you differentiate the right from wrong. You have been playing the role of a woman for a long time and sometimes you forget yourself and st

 UNDERSTAND ME        Many people keep on asking why they cannot find themselves in good relations with others and keep blaming others. Well, Let's look at the art of communication as a major key point of developing healthy relationships.   Communication is an essential in any given relationships we find ourselves in. A person is able to air out his or her thoughts and opinions on certain issues and hence discuss with the other party involved for a better outcome. This reduces chances of stress caused by overthinking on a certain itchy matter and as we all know, a problem shared is a problem half solved.   A good communicator or communication entails : Knowing what you want to communicate. Listening to what others are saying. Developing solutions that will be for the good of all parties involved (Commonly known as the win-win situation). Expressing appreciation.   HELP ME HELP YOU     Expecting someone to know or read your mind

    hold your head high     It's amazing the way we live through a day. Being motivated by the achieves of today. With lots of cautions when we remember the drawback of yesterday.   We empower ourselves when we are down, not wanting to let go the little we have. We keep on craving for and obtaining more. If anybody sad we cannot, we listen to them no more. You live contented when you have something you can look back to say i did that. Even when we are exhausted , we still manage not to lose hope and with this hope our former energies are restored. Not wanting our inner soul to be engulfed by doubt. Not wanting to be shutterred by mystery of the world.   We keep on holding onto the right, the truth. Even when some argue against it we strongly say no, they have to be wrong. We head to the top no matter the price. Though pricked by the thorns we step on as we go up we still manage to keep moving. Tears falling not because we are sad but because we are joyous for

  They are the most over-protective brothers in history. I often feel like I am queen and they are my personal guards,except that I can't order them around, like a queen. which hardly seems fair. Needless to say, they have never let me near enough to a boy to be in a relationship. This one time, one brother, George, said on me over a boy I had my first kiss with, as if a girl couldn't have enough trouble securing a boyfriend. { why I am using this photo, I do not know } And so now it was the first day of campus for me and I was ready for it. I mean who hasn't been ready for a great time in campus! I went to the living room and there he was, Merck. HIM: So are you ready to rock your life in campus? ME: Hell yeah, cant wait to see all the cute boys faces. HIM: No way! you cant talk to any boys except for Thomas. ( see now, Thomas you wonder who he is. Thomas is one of our brothers, at least we make it look like it. He actually i

It began with a dream, a senseless dream in which I thought I was a man of means. From my belt hung a handsome purse, heavy with coin. There were shekels which I cast with careless freedom to beggars, there were pieces of silver with which I bought finery for my wife and anything I deemed best for me. There were pieces of gold which made me feel assured of the future and unafraid to spend the silver. A glorious feeling of contentment was with me, I don't think you would have known me.  "why then do I know you?" Safeguard your future generation Why indeed ! Because I awoke up and remembered how empty my purse was, a feeling of rebellion swept over me. As sail ors we ride in the same boat we two. As youngsters we went together to the priest to learn some wisdom. As young men we shared each others pleasures. As grown men we have always been close friends we have been contented subjects of our kind. satisfied to work long hours and spend our earnings freely