it was a great day and technology made it better.

I am actually in SOUTH AFRICA but I got connected talked to my children and friends.

My facebook was full of Birthday wished from all over the world.

It's a great day.

Cheers

I have been toying with the idea of sharing the life and days of a single mother and this year 2012 seems just the right time to do it... I have seen a lot in my 10.5years of being a mother and I believe this is just the right time to put everything together and share it out to not only encourage all of you out there who are not just single mothers, but single parents trying to give their children a decent lifestyle, everyday by sacrificing your time and working hard so that they can have a good life.

Being a single mother is not to me by choice, am not regreting it either since I have learnt with time to overcome the shame that society tags with being a single mother. In fact I am proud to be the mother of my 10.5year old son since I know that there aremany other who wish to have the same but have not. I would have wished to have a father for my son, but as it is, they can only talk once in a while. Being a single and working mum means that at times you may be forced to miss not only some of the precious moments that one can spend with your child/ren, since you have to ensure that you must work to enable them have a good life. At times I sit down and ask myself if it is really worth it to be away from home for at times 4 weeks, with little and limited phone conversation with my son and I wonder how he is feeling being away from me.

My job is not that friendly, it not only makes me unavailable when I am within but keeps me without most of the times....working and being a parent is not easy at times I am forced to advice young people to ensure they have time for their children and if they are going to be a globe trotting couple, then its better not to have their children then :). I try my best to be home for most of the special occasions and when I cant make it home, I have to make advance an apology and prepare him psychologically that I may or may not be available for that special occasions. The best thing with my job is that I get to travel therefore when he is on holiday and I have loval travel, he gets to tag along with me. Boring for a 10yr old as under normal circumstances he should be out playing in a football field...but yeah sometimes I am forced to.

A single and working parent is not the easiest to date, at times she has to choose between her job, child and the person s/he is dating, at times compromising too much and looking like they do not care a lot but hey, that is life, and the sad reality. If you asked me to choose between a man am dating and my son...am sure you would know the answer right? But it doesnt mean that single parent cannot date, they can, there are many limitations and some are just those you can avoid.

Well today I was just going through a general view of a life in a diary of a single mother...and/ or parent..next write up will be on specific areas that one undergoes as a single mother especially...my focus will not be on the male gender but specifically on the female gender...looking forward to your reads and comments, feel free to ask questions :)

its great to have a starting point towards change that we all want and believe in for the present and future generation.

1. Hello fellow GYC'ers ..i just got invited for the 1st annual unapvo conference. The conference is on peace and volunteerism and i am interested in opportunities for grants and funds to attend the conference in Phillipines, if any of you know of any. I am a kenyan national. blessed day :-)

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Grapes are sweet and have good benefits to the throat. They are stimulative and soothing and act as an appetizer. They are very delicious in taste and are found in green, black and violet colors.

Anguished laments I have in my heart

Everyday wondering how Vera would carry onDawn cracks she’s there awake doing choresWhile Mutethia busy sleeping and snoring hmmm!Warmth of his bed eating his flesh and engulfing him

Vera busy with chores while Mutethia snoring zzzMutethia wakes up, eats and drives his sleek BMW to workWhile she’s there at home sitting and waiting for him in evening

Like a faithful dog she accept everything she’s given because of being a womanShe can’t object because its Mutethia’s belief she’s feebleBut how long shall this continue in our society while we stand

When Mutethia’s want to maintain status quo of their ownAt our very own home we are the very one destroying our Vera’sMutilating them in the name of tradition, their womanhood destroyedWhile Mutethia go scoot free while tradition protecting themA pack of hounds we are surely in this society!

How long shall an African woman sob and we stand on the fenceI cry! Because she’s been left in an island unguarded and susceptibleHave we ever sat back and thought about our women’s emotionsThe pain, the agony and psyclogical torment and aftermathBecause of it mother Africa encounters problems and painIn giving birth to Mutethia junior, senior and the rest

Let’s feel their sorrow and agony filled in their heart but, whyAll this?I stand over a weeping African woman because of my prideTo rub away tears of sorry and replace it with jovialness

To nurture the strength and woman in an African womanTo her, light is glowing and slowly rising to shine its fullestLet’s heal our women and protect them not to darken her lightBecause at the end of the tunnel, there is light for her African women.

hi, Talent Inspiration Corner is a youth Group operating in Baringo County in Kenya. We have plans of expanding our reach to other youth in Kenya and to do so, we have come up with a programme called  TIC Students and Professionals  which targets youth both in secondary schools and those enrolled in tertiry institutions. Our programme also covers those youth who are unemployed in the community.

Our major focus is creating jobs by building professional teams in every constituency within all the counties of Kenya and we hope to launch our first phase of the Programme in Baringo County come 2012. We hope to involve upto 500 youth from the county which will see a major improvement of the county and as a matter of fact, it will lead to growth and development in Kenya.

We shall build a team of unemployed professionals in the fields of engineering, science and hearts and delegate responsibilities to them as a way of job creation. we also intend to resource them with the necessary equipment to carry ou the assigned jobs. TIC shall then link them to the market within and outside Kenya.

All this and more plans contained in our TIC Students and Professionals programme needs cash. I therefore appeal to everyone out there on behalf of Talent Inspiratiion Corner to come in and assist us to raise an amount of 20,000 dollars.

Thank you and May the Almighty God bless you.

For queries, please contact silvakuli@gmail.com or info.tic.gdt@gmail.com

The effects of climate change on agriculture are expected to vary across the continent, but are likely to be most pronounced in areas where temperature and water availability are already major constraining factors.  Africa is highly dependent on rain-fed agricultural production. Many African crops including wheat, maize, and soybean are already grown close to the limits of their temperature or water stress tolerances.      

The majority Africa’s subsistence farmers are women; they are the ones that will really feel the brunt of changing rainfall and weather patterns. For many African women and girls, the situation will be exacerbated by poor access to education, health and employment.

The pressures on families to migrate to urban areas is also expected to grow further, making the challenge of tackling poverty and unemployment rates an even greater one.

Taking Action

Although climate change is already being felt across the continent, many countries are still not being spurred into action. We are urging the world’s governments represented at COP17 to listen to the people, and not the vested interests of polluting corporations; to shelve the rhetoric and create a framework for a sustainable future, by:

• Ensuring a peak in global greenhouse gas emissions by 2015
• Ensuring that the Kyoto Protocol continues and providing a mandate for a comprehensive legally binding instrument
• Delivering the necessary finance to tackle climate change
• Setting up a framework for protecting forests in developing countries
• Ensuring global cooperation on technology and energy finance
• Ensuring international transparency in assessing and monitoring country commitments and actions.

The Convention on Climate Change sets an overall framework for intergovernmental efforts to tackle the challenge posed by climate change. It recognises that the climate system is a shared resource that is affected by emissions from greenhouse gases resulting from human activity. Decisions under the UNFCCC are made on the basis of consensus according to current operating practice. This means that, rather than voting, Parties aim to reach agreement through discussion and negotiation. The main negotiating forum is sessions of the Conference of the Parties (COP), which typically take place at ministerial level. Parties also negotiate in the two subsidiary bodies of the UNFCCC, the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI). Other matters, such as the development of technical guidelines for implementing COP decisions, are dealt with at UNFCCC workshops. The administration of the UNFCCC is the responsibility of a secretariat based in Bonn, Germany. The UNFCCC secretariat is institutionally linked to the United Nations and is administered under UN Rules and Regulations. It is answerable to the COP and the subsidiary bodies, and has responsibility in three areas: executive direction, technical programs and support services for the intergovernmental process.

http://7billionactions.org/story/1185-1-of-1billion-making-a-positive-change

Our generation is unique.  Not just because of the internet, not just because of the pressing unemployment and civil unrest we have seen globally, and not just because of the threat to our future posed by climate change.

Expressing what is unique about our generation is really difficult.  It is something that has recently become a bit of an obsession of mine.  We grow up in different cultures, different economies and under different political situations.  So when I asked 9 young people from different countries to videoblog about their passion for climate activism, I got a multitude of ideas and creativity, but there was a common feeling.  There was an elastic band binding these people together, though they had never met.

courtesy of... http://drhutley.wordpress.com/

Durban - Some 1000 youth from all over the world have gathered in Durban, South Africa, for the two week long UN climate negotiations, where governments will hopefully decide on the process towards a binding global climate agreement. Young people are present here as part of the official youth constituency YOUNGO. 

After three days of training at the Conference of Youth taking place this weekend at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, the young delegates are now well equipped to participate in the UN climate tasks and lobby for the binding global agreement we all need so badly. 

Would you like to know more about their amazing work? Check the hashtag YOUNGO (#YOUNGO) on Twitter or follow @seanamos