Shared Wsdom

Mary Ojiayo...We are living with the sense that people from the west are more intelligent, superior and contented than we are.The truth of the matter is;Colour is the only difference but our capability and potential are always intact.No one can ever change this fact.This is a different generation so lets rise up as youths and strive to lead the lives we aspire.

Abila Youth Club

Members......the formation of Abila Youth Club has enabled youths within Mamboleo and its soroundings both in and out of schools to come together to share ideas, guide and comfort each other in times of uncertainity and support each other to achieve their goals. It is our believe that this spirit will continue not just among us but among all of you with similar intentions or iterests

In my words...

W.K. Joseph..(Nakh). The absence of dialogue in my past has realy affected my progressive growth. But due to unlimited interuction with pepole of different calibres and positions helped me see the importance of dialogue and sharing of thoughts. Any body can form a group and that wasn't enough for me. I chose to go further and provide a forum where young people would contest ideas share them and help each other develope self confidence in their believes and attitude towards life. It is my believe that this blog will be a great space for great thoughts not just in some native African community but from all over the world.

Who is your role model?

How do you affect change?

what are you thoughts?

Some facts and statistics compiled by various groups...

-About 24,000 people die every day from hunger or hunger-related causes. Three-fourths of the deaths are children under the age of five. (United Nations)
-Every 30 seconds an African child dies of malaria-more than one million child deaths a year. (UN Millennium Project)
-Every year more than 10 million children die of hunger and preventable diseases - that's over 30,000 per day and one every 3 seconds. (Millennium Campaign)
-More than 800 million people go to bed hungry every day...300 million are children. Of these 300 million children, only eight percent are victims of famine or other emergency situations. More than 90 percent are suffering long-term malnourishment and micronutrient deficiency. (UN Millennium Project)
-Five million people, mostly children, die each year from water-borne diseases. (UN Millennium Project)
-600 million children live in absolute poverty. (Millennium Campaign)
-30,000 children die each day due to poverty. That is about 210,000 children each week, or just under 11 million children under five years of age, each year. (Unicef)
-Number of children in the world: 2.2 billion. Number in poverty: 1 billion (every second child) (Global Issues)
-10.6 million died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5 (same as children population in France, Germany, Greece and Italy) (Global Issues)
-15 million children orphaned due to HIV/AIDS (similar to the total children population in Germany or United Kingdom) (Global Issues)
-More than 10 percent of children in developing countries die before the age of five. (CARE)Around 270 million children have no access to healthcare services. (World Vision New Zealand)
-The number of youth in the world surviving on less than a dollar a day in 2000 was an estimated 238 million, almost a quarter (22.5 per cent) of the world’s total youth population. (United Nations Population Fund)

What do you have to say about these facts?

Finish these sentences...

1. In the next ten years I see myself...

2. I like/dislike my hometown because...

3. The one thing I would do to end poverty would be...

4. If I had one super power is would be...

5. My favorite passtime is________ because....

These definitions are used by an organization called Youth Against Poverty...

Absolute poverty refers to the level of resources needed to sustain physical survival. People are poor if they cannot feed clothe or house themselves and their dependants. It is based on a person's biological needs. This is the most common way in which people visualise poverty.

Relative poverty is defined in relation to the standards of living in a society at a particular time. People live in poverty when they are denied an income sufficient for their material needs and when these circumstances exclude them from taking part in activities which are an accepted part of daily life in that society.

What do you think about these definitions?

Do they accurately portray the reality of poverty?

youth poverty

A question to get you started...

How does poverty affect you as a youth?