A LETTER TO THE YALI WASHINGTON FELLOWS .....AFRICA

A LETTER TO THE YALI  WASHINGON FELLOWS AND THE ALUMNI

Dear YALIANS

Greetings from the most amazing and greener city Nairobi, Kenya. Welcome back home it's now almost one month since most of you came back, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Obama administration and the team for putting up the YALI program together. This is a sign of sacrifice and the love you have towards the African youth and young future leaders. A great leader is the one who can mentor and equip young leaders to be better and greater leaders after they leave. President Obama has been a champion for change and support to young people not only in Africa but across the global, many young people and aspiring leaders really admire your style of work. Thanks for the good job Mr. President. 

To the YALI fellows, I  believe the experience was amazing and all young people across Africa are looking forward to what next after such a life time experience. I have had a chance to interact with most of the fellows from South Africa, Somalia, and my country Kenya  and the feedback was such a positive one.

Through my chats it seems YALI Fellowship  was such a wonderful platform to learn and experience a different level of training and leadership, I am sure it's time to replicate what you learned from the  entire and also give back to the society what Washington gave you.

Most of the time it's hard to bring young people together despite of the enthusiasm and the zeal for change.  YALI is a wakeup call and a challenge for us to you to do something before we complain to our leaders(the old folks) that they are not giving us the opportunities, while if given such a great opportunity with huge investment  we then come back and its business as usual, the big question is what are you doing?

YALI  was a platform and avenue to bring young leaders together and show them how to work together and widen their network as well . You were all selected because you were showing a great leadership and good track records, Now that you have a great network of amazing young people around Africa could you bring back the spirit of Pan-Africanism that our fore fathers had.

Our current leaders have failed us as young people but if we could all rise and be the change we want to see in Africa then we could be the next big voice.

I have a had a chance to attend several global conferences and even attended a few fellowship  around the world. When we meet in through this platform we sound so united but after we are back to our countries everyone goes back to business as usual and hence make us the most divided and self-centered people.

We need to be different if we want to be trusted leaders, we need to be able to pull together and even reason together. Lets us not spend  90% just making ourselves  look nice on Facebook, twitter and other social media platform and our impact in the ground is so limited. Lets us roll up our sleeves  go out and create real impact be the revolutionaries of change for Africa. I believe through you network you could focus on one particular thing like, either, health, education and eve talent and do one thing that could change your community.

The challenge is the constant question " what will you do when you get home" or what we call the exit strategy", I would like to see and feel the presence of YALI Fellows in my country even if it's just mentoring young organizations and even going back to your villages and going something of social impact. Those who are interested in taking up role as leaders of today it your time to step out and share your manifesto to the people you want to lead don’t  misled by the likes and comment you get via social media but be convinced by the followers and leaders who trust you in the group. I am posing a challenge for you to step out and leader as a YALI Fellow.

I am calling upon the African leaders to support the YALI fellows, As a young African and a mentor I believe that young leaders need true mentors and people who can guild them and even advocate for them. It’s a challenge that I would wish  my president HE Uhuru Kenyatta to take up and create an institution that can bring up young leaders who are passionate to lead this country.  Could you support them realize their dreams and ambitions? If you if you lead by example the rest of the African leaders will then follow your footsteps

The media plays a great and very important role when it comes to showcasing what young people are doing, let the media step out from the norms of the same youths on our television being interviewed in almost all channels but it's time to step out to look for the un sang heroes. Young people who are doing amazing things around Africa.

The future of our continent does not lie in the hands of a few hereditary individuals  but to the young leaders who are ready to step out and lead differently , come up with smart policies that could make Africa greater and better.

   I am writing to all the YALI fellows and Alumni around Africa to rethink and create a collaborative network of change makers young people who can work together for the betterment of our continent, Just to stay  focus, think and make an impact. Young people are leaders of today and  greater  leaders of tomorrow . If  we want Africa to be different we must collectively pull together  so that we can influence policies and give a clear road map on where we want to be. For a long time youths have been used in all manner of interest but it's time to stand firm and talk collectively as young people.

Together we can be the change we want to see in our motherland, would be glad to interact and work together with many of you.

 Shalom, Peace, Amani

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Faith Beyond the dream part 1

Faith beyond the dream

Last time on my post, I talked about how many people had faith beyond the dream and achieved  a lot, today, i would like you to think more within yourself. Will focus on how you could achieve faith beyond the dream.

 Most people have written a lot on self realization,  discovery of one self and many others.

Faith beyond the dream is what lies within us, it's not what others tell us we are worth but what we understand we are worth, It's what we wake up as we are worth of, It's more like the dim light at the end of  the tunnel, the still small voice that always reminds you that you were born for greatness and nothing defines your destiny more than yourself.

Our limitations lies at the extend of our faith and how far we see ourselves, We have a better imagine of ourselves than the way other people look or think of us.

I have always hate negative words, I always feel like they pull me back 10 steps back, I may have not achieved much but I always feel like i get pull me to negative achievements. I hate people who tell me more about how I won't achieve that or this while they themselves haven't achieved anything.

Most of the things we never achieve its not because we never tried or we never had the ability to achieve but most likely is the  voice we heard from others like you cannot make it or its difficult to achieve that kind of business and many more. When we have faith and focused on what we want to achieve, we can actually achieve everything through if we only have  faith beyond the dream....

Faith beyond the dream.

Part 1.

Life without faith is like a man without  hope, when we focus on the depth of our faith we can move mountains. we can live without measure, we can cross the seas, climb mountains  even fly higher than the birds.

I have always said that it does not matter how rich or poor, how learned or how illiterate but what  if you luck faith you are doomed, every great things we see today started by faith. Someone had a plan and having faith ad being focused started something knowing that by faith it will turn to a great thing and much more it will be the greatest thing ever.

When Bill Gates  first started Microsoft he had faith that it will one day be the big thing in the world one of the biggest company and much more a great brand and that would allow him to retire earlier and concentrate on creating an impact in the societies and the same to the late Steve Jobs who did bring up apple to be one of the most top brand in the world.

they must have really worked hard and smart to achieve all they have achieved  so far but i am sure if you were to ask them what really pushed them was a sound back in their minds saying they are meant for greatness. They use faith to move to a greater level, everyday they stayed focus and believed that through faith  they can make the change they want to see.

Faith can move mountains, the bible talks about through faith many people got healed during  Jesus ministry.

every time I read a story about the woman who had issue of blood for 12 months, I deeply think about  how she had faith beyond a dream.  She extremely had an extraordinary faith , she never even wanted to meet Jesus or even have Jesus touch  her but she just wanted to touch his garment  and when she did the issue of blood was gone.

In life what are some of the things you have let go just because you could not hold firm your faith, most of the successful people in the world today.  One day they  had  faith like a mustard  seed and their faith build up to become some of the brands like  Apple, Microsoft and even TBN. what do you  think if they gave up from the word go or  they never had faith? they could have buried all the today's big brands. Faith can always be described as believing in something that you can't see now but will see it tomorrow.

Being a man and woman of faith is what can change you and the society around you, Martin Luther Jr. had a dream but the dream was installed with great faith  and through his faith the American people both White and black still value his faith.

When you practice faith beyond the dream then you can unlock all your potential....

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