tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post2905884799727557625..comments2024-03-28T17:52:49.942-07:00Comments on You Missed This: Stop Press, Avoid HIV/AIDSUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post-19438153073362535142007-12-01T13:43:00.000-08:002007-12-01T13:43:00.000-08:00This is ODM propaganda and we are not swallowing a...This is ODM propaganda and we are not swallowing anybit of itAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post-76793186784606405702007-12-01T04:20:00.000-08:002007-12-01T04:20:00.000-08:00In addition to my former post, I wish to inform t...In addition to my former post, I wish to inform those who are interested to know more about Nyumbani: they also take care of several thousand HIV-positive children who are still living with some family members mainly in Kibera.<BR/><BR/>Nyumbani supplies them under their programme 'Lea Toto' with the necessary healthy food and medicine and makes regular blood tests helping them to stay alive, going to school etc.....<BR/><BR/>So once again I repeat my appeal: go and see Sister Mary and all the others working in Nyumbani - see for yourself what can be done - and then convince others to join since there is so much more to do ....<BR/><BR/>Don't wait that others do it - as I said in another post: the road to a better Kenya has to start with every individual contributing whatever he can .... and not only with words, with deeds ......<BR/><BR/>And I want to repeat my appeal to Sam Okello at this point: <BR/><BR/>Let's settle our accounts in the interest and for the benefit of these innocent children suffering because of the 'sins' of their parents ..... <BR/><BR/>If you are serious that you want changes - a better Kenya - let's start here ..... together!!!!!!!!!!<BR/><BR/>MBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post-71658416055279756362007-12-01T02:05:00.000-08:002007-12-01T02:05:00.000-08:00May I suggest to all who are still 'ignorant' that...May I suggest to all who are still 'ignorant' that you go to Kibera and other places where the only ones left are the grandmothers taking care of their (mostly also HIV-positive) grandchildren - and then go to Nyumbani - first the Aids Oprhans Village in Karen - set up mostly with the help and money of Mzungus since their Founder (my friend Father Angelo d'Agostini) found it almost impossible to raise money amongst the rich Kenyans ..... so some 'whites' had to 'jump in' ....<BR/><BR/>Until some years ago when Lucy Kibaki joined and helped to secure a plot for a new village near Kitui and also took over the patronage ..... in the meantime, some hundred children found a new home and some grandmothers found a secure place to still take care of them without having to have 'nightmares' about what's happening if they die themselves..... <BR/><BR/>This is a new approach to the problem and should become an example for all Kenya ..... <BR/><BR/>I was planning to put some of the money raised by the sales of my book to this organization a.o. since it was Father d'Ag (as we used to call him) gave me the courage and his expertise to write my story in the first place .... <BR/><BR/>For all those who want to know more, go to www.nyumbani.org and if you want to help (they also look for volunteers in various fields) contact Sister Mary Owens who took over when Father d'Ag died on November 20, 2006.......<BR/><BR/>So whatever you want to say about Lucy Kibaki, at least here she did what a First Lady should do: take care of the poorest and most disadvantage ..... <BR/><BR/>But allow me to add that I don't agree on her 'allowance'- I do not even want to talk about that incredible increase which is a shame by itself - I think that her husband has the means and the obligation to pay for her ..... it should not be the People of Kenya as poor as most of them are. <BR/><BR/>I think, at least here both of them have been ill-advised just to consider this .........<BR/><BR/>MBMarianne Brinerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10981062318508286006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post-31615100031181004332007-11-30T07:34:00.000-08:002007-11-30T07:34:00.000-08:00"It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, b..."It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance."---- Elizabeth TaylorAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com