I would like to share some unforgettable moments with you as Adopt A Light is recognized as a ” best practice” for innovative cities alongside Kenya’s own Safaricom Mpesa. This is a proud moment to be Kenyan.
Kenya scooped two UN Habitat Business Awards 2009 awards out of five awards while the other three went to Mexico, China and India. Today we should affirm that we are all right in spite of everything that has passed and rather than waste our energy on those things that pull us down, lets celebrate each other and move forward together!

Here at the Awards ceremony in Delhi, India with Mrs Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director of UN-HABITAT.

Life in Kenya is worrying as the incidences and headlines we awake to are just as frightening as can get. From suspicion and allegations of paedophile priests to evangelists being charged with pornography. Rising insecurity, you keep hearing of carjacking, extortion through sms, school kids being kidnapped with ransom requests of millions of shillings, among many other evils. If one is involved in an accident, stopping might just mean death for the motorist. Stealing of fuel from transformers and overturned tankers and
the subsequent blackouts, fires and burns is becoming a national preoccupation! Hunger and many of our brothers still dying from it.

One is bound to ask where are we going as a nation?
Where are we as a people heading to?
Who can come and lead us to Canaan, and remove us from this mess we have gradually sunk into?

Things cannot be allowed to deteriorate any further or we risk
following the many nations in Africa like Somalia who have ended up with non functioning governments and that just is anarchy!

What do you think we can do? We have shouted ourselves horse in
the press, we read it and see it daily in the media. Whose
responsibility is it to make the changes required to reverse this
unfathomable crisis we are trending right now?

This is a challenge to all of us not to tire but at every opportunity
endeavour to be heard until someone, somewhere, hears us and starts
ACTING!

Last week I had the opportunity to speak to a group of ladies on Passion & Determination at the Village Market talk on Ladies Day.
I spoke on my tumultuous journey in both my private and public life.

I was able to give the group a few of my personal quotes that I have gathered in my short but challenging life, which I gladly share with you today.

My real challenge in my community service was when I visited the slum areas of Korogocho, Mukuru and Kibera in Nairobi and came face to face  with abject poverty, despair and  extreme poverty hunger.  That picture stuck in my mind and has been my drive in the many of the projects I  have started or intend to get involved in.

This is what drove me to start Driving Kenya Foundation a charitable foundation whose sole purpose is to eradicate  extreme poverty in our country. So as a result of this we needed a vehicle through which donations would be made. So One In A Million was launched as an online portal to register membership and eventually start receiving funds for subscribers. With a committed group of people we can make a difference.

Get involved and Register at One In A Million site!

How then can we help?

What I want is to enroll Kenyans and friends of Kenya to pull together for Kenyans through contributions in these three areas.

1. A donation through One In A Million of at least Kshs100 per month from one million of us in the Kenya population will go to great length to alleviate extreme poverty in our nation.
2. Contribution by groups of 10,000 Kenyans at Omega10000 for investment in other business ventures.
3. And a payment of just 1 shilling for brand and consumer participation in poverty reduction.

Register where you feel most suited, if you care enough and would like to be part of the effort to reduce poverty in our country then hang with me.

I have the drive and determination to make all this succeed and have and intend to continue surrounding myself with people of integrity all of whom shall own the projects and work with a common vision. Do not take the back seat. Get on the bus and get involved.

In these hard economic times even the rich are behaving like they need aid. They justify cutting back on charity or even investing. I say it’s the wrong approach stop behaving like a pauper when you really living like a king in comparison. Okay so you can’t travel first class, is there anything wrong with business or economy? You are still in the category with the clarion call- I’ve made it! – your home still enjoys three square meals, a fancy car, a wardrobe, an occasional holiday, a job or business, a bank account, assets, an occasional drink or meal with the guys and girls to work out the stresses of life, a gym membership to work out the excesses, its your life and its nothing less then a success. Don’t stop uttering these words I’ve made it – to avoid the call or responsibility of being part of the solution.

Please visit your chosen project above and register and give me hope that we can avert a revolution and be proud I mean really proud of being Kenyan!