STOP MARRYING US OFF WHEN WE ARE STILL YOUNG

MY NAME IS PRECIOUS ROSE KIYIMBA AND I HAVE A POEM FOR YOU.

EDUCATION

Education Education,
Education is every where,
Educate your Child.

Mummy,  Daddy,
Thank you for educating me.

This isn't just about Education
We say,

" Stop child labour and stop child abuse,
"Stop making us marry when we are still young,
We must grow and then we marry."

MAY GOD BLESS YOU.

MAY GOD BLESS MY TEACHERS AND MY SCHOOL DIRECTORS (WENDY AND TODD).

THANKS TO FNC ACADEMY FOR THE GOD JOB THEY CONTINUE TO DO WITH OUR CHILDREN. MAY GOD REWARD YOUR SELFLESSNESS, LOVE AND COMMITMENT

EDUCATION

MY NAME IS JEZREEL BAGABE RAMA AND I HAVE A POEM FOR YOU

EDUCATION

Education is not just about math and Science,

Or learning how to read and write,

Education is learning who I am,

What my talents are,

What my interests are.

Education is learning how the world works.

And how I fit into the world.

Education is learning how to experiment and explore,

Education is learning that you don’t have to walk, feel or act the same,

That people come in different shapes, sizes and colors

But they all deserve love, respect and acceptance just like me

Thank you Mummy and Daddy for giving me a chance to get education.

With all that I have learnt

I will flourish

Change Uganda and the world

For my Education is for a life time.

This is a clear example of teachers who don't just teach math and science but help children understand why they are studying. My appreciation to Dawn Children's Center for the good job they continue to do with my Beauties.

Ambrose Kibuuka says, "Education strives to make people so identical like the beans in the pod," people especially teachers and policy makers have to know that we are different and therefore we can't do the same things.

WHY YOU MUST WATCH QUEEN OF KATWE

Africa has been called so many names over the years in our history. The prevalent being the Dark Continent. Basically telling how uncivilized and backward and so needing of civilization that we need.

Watching queen of Katwe shows an Africa that is rising. Not an Africa that has conquered poverty, not an Africa that has taken care of its problems but an Africa of what it is. An Africa that has a story, an Africa that has enough inspiration, enough people, heroes and heroines. But you see the media, the knowledge that has been given to us doesn’t allow us to see these stories Queen of Katwe is one of those movies that brings out an amazing story of resilience, inspiration, hope in our societies that are seeminglessly hopeless.

So until we tune our eyes to see our stories and coin the words to tell our stories- then even the stories that we think we are telling right will be distorted. African stories need to be told by Africans and there is enough of them around us in our community.

The Mother (Lupita Nyong’o) is a big example for an African mother. She is a representation of so many African mothers who go out there every day laying their lives down to build hope from scratch for their children and then the children the hopes that come out of them, the victories that they have they are all around us. May be could we constantly tell our stories both in cinema, in poetry, in writing in media – wouldn’t that be the foundation that African needs to progress not IMF, not World Bank, not Grants and loans, not Missionaries, charities but our societies, our conditions from them inspiring us to change, progress, inspiring us to look for solutions that are not designed or tailored by someone else, solutions that come from the communities from the very source where the problems are.

Parenting – you don’t need to provide everything or lots of money to get the best out of the child. You just need availability. An available parent figures out who their kids are, figures out their dreams, their gifting, their strengths and they support that. And informed parent gives relevant support. A parent who is not informed gives assumed support and deep down there parents are trying to live their shattered dreams through their children and for the most part they do it with money – if they can provide everything then their kid can become whom they want to be but they are actually making the kids become who they were supposed to be.

Secondly, it’s not the circumstances that determine whom you are meant to be – it is true poverty has limitations, it dehumanizes, it steals your self-esteem, confidence but poverty is not an ultimate sentence you can come out from the poorest of the poorest to achieve your dreams as long as you have a voice of someone who believe in you and funds your un nurtured dream/talent or skills. Every child needs a voice that keeps reminding them of their potential, someone who will tell them they can do it. That is why I have found it very vital for us to attend events for our children – it is a drive and a sacrifice, a commitment and proof that we believe in our children and assurance that we will always be there to cheer them on and on and on. If they are in a race and they see someone they trust in the audience it will be their motivation to run and run and run. They will win the race.

NOW GO CATCH THAT MOVIE

By Dorcus Magoba Lama

Trainer/HR Specialist 

The Power of Volunteering

HE MELTS MY HEART

While re devoting ourselves to the vows we made in 2011, he had this to say ' Despite the differences and difficulties in despair or danger, i pledge to be devoted to our marriage - digging deeper in love till God decides to distance us by death.

BROKEN SOULS

Have we given them a chance to be heard?

Have we given them a chance to speak?

Have we given them a chance to be loved?

Or we have judged them by what we see!

Is this really who we are supposed to be in Chist?

Oh  how quickly we've forgotten who we used to be.

Make up and designer clothes define us now.

Class and status determine who gets attention and smiles

Pastors and Leaders hanging in the clouds,

while we scream and exclaim their ,'revealed power'

Higher and Higher the ladders extend to the clouds

Yet sin and greed continue to define our lives

Lets go back to the true definition of love

Laying down our lives so others can be served.

Humility truly defining our lives

For death to self is truly what our father demands

Go ye spread Christ's Love

So that he may be lifted up high above the clouds.

WRITTEN BY EMMANUEL LAMA

CELEBRATING LOVE

Dear God, 

Today i would like to come before you thanking you for the many blessings you continue to give me and my family. But most of all thank you for the gift of a wonderful husband and father to my children. As we celebrate our Anniversary may you continue to use him to lead us and continue to love and cherish you as we serve the people and make disciples as per the The Great Commission that you left us. 

 (Matthew 28:18-20) And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Amen.
To you Emmanuel Lama

Ruth 1:16-17“Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.” 

BESIDE YOU

Beside you;

Is where I always want to be

Every second; of every minute;

of every hour; of every day,

Beside you;

Is where my heart rests’

Where my mind delightfully relaxes...

And my body basks in the pleasure of you

Beside you;

No sadness, have I known -

No hate, have I harboured

No pain, have I endured alone

You are my hero;

The shadow of Christ -

My earthly refuge

from where  I find peace

In you, I’m blessed

Filled with a gladness boundless.

In you; I am reminded of how special I am;

Of my role to live for God and Him alone

Beside you, I will always be

Basking in your warmth and strength;

Residing in your heart.

I love you today, tomorrow and forever.