KEVIN
MADAHANA
1. PERSONAL
LIFE STORY
2. TGD
BUILDING
4. IMMPROVEMENT
ON TGD BUILDING
5. HOW
TGD HAS CHANGED ME
6. CHALLENGES
AND SOLUTION
7. IMPORTANCE
OF THE TRAINING (COMPUTER)
8. PART
TIME ACTIVITIES
PERSONAL LIFE
I was born on 7th April,
1986 as a second born soul to the late Mr. Kennedy Obiero (God rest his soul in
peace) and Mama Margret Musimbi. My elder brother Felix had been born three
years earlier. At a tender age of only two months, my parents broke up (as am
told by my grand mum.)
Our grandparents had to pick up our
daily care and they brought us up. My grandmother was a local nursery teacher and
cared for me just as her own son when I was her son’s son. Felix, being two
years, spent the day playing with other children in the neighborhood.
Our grandparents struggled to bring
me up. They fed me on milk from the local breed of animals in the homestead. I believe
that it takes the hand of the Almighty God for the hopeless in society to grow
up and survive from the hard times to date. I thank God for helping my
grandparents bring me up.
To my readers, God uplifts the
humble and I survived to join school. Our grandparents paid for our early
schooling fees. In lower primary, father’s brother Abel paid for our fees and
we were never sent home.
With God’s guidance I sat for my
Kenya primary school exams in 2001 and was ranked the 4th in a class
of 36 pupils and 13th in the division. I was selected to join a
reputable high school in the province. My grandparents and uncle came up
together with the other family members and rewarded me a chance of a lifetime
to join high school.
I’d love to write more about my
personal life but I may get my readers emotions rolling! Bear with me. After high
school I was only 17 years old. At the early age of 18 years, I began a
specialization in Range Management and Animal Production from the University of
Nairobi’s lower Kabete campus. Truly it has taken the hand of God for all this
to happen. Thanks to my guardians’ big hearts.
The journey at campus was full of
challenges, but God’s grace was at hand. He helped me make it through. At a tender
age of 22 years, I graduated from college at Lower Kabete in style. The
struggle and the results were dedicated to my grandmother and my father, my
educator Abel and all those who made my ends meet. God bless them. Right now, I
work as a freelance veterinary doctor in my area and I thank God for his
endless mercy and gift of life.
Trinity
Global Development Building
The TGD building is located at
Shibuli in Kakamega County, Western Province of Kenya. Ever since the
construction started up to where it stands, it has taken the hand of God. In
first place, I’d love to thank the donors for the support to ensure that the construction
is complete and under use for the prosperity of community.
At first, it is the youth
employment opportunities that our youth are getting from the activities at the
site. My friends work at the construction site and they earn their daily bread from
the TGD building. Instead of having to engage in drugs and criminal activities
as part time, many of the boys spend their day at the construction site. Once
again, thanks to the Trinity Global Development Community.
Secondly, the rooms already under use
on the first floor of the TGD building have proved important for the youth of
the area. It hosts about one hundred boys and girls (youth) who are undertaking
a computer course courtesy of TGD at the same building site. Then the teachers
who teach the students are members of the community, hence TGD has helped to
create jobs for the guys and they work in the TGD building
To our sponsors, I want to say
thank you for your kids hear you are struggling to improve our lives, though
you are far away. You came to our rescue and we love your work. May God the Almighty
bless you. So my question is, if the TGD building is providing so many chances
of jobs and education to many people in the local community when it is still in
its initial stages of constructions, what of when the whole work of building
construction will be over? May God always bless the TGD community –we love you.
There are so many things I’d love to write about your amazing hearts but maybe
I cannot. Let me just say THANK you.
FUTURE
PARTICIPATION IN TGD PROJECTS
I want to take this time to make a few
proposals of the things I’d love incorporated into the TGD projects which will be
housed under the buildings which I hope will be completed. Apart from housing
the computer training students, the following can be put into consideration.
1. COUNSELING
CENTER: One of the rooms under the TGD building should be turned into a
counseling place for the many couples who may break-up due to family conflicts.
This will help to reduce failed marriages and improve young relationships thus
helping to diminish the rate of orphans or single parents in the local
community. This will also help create jobs for the social counselors and
sociologists.
2. ANIMAL
PRODUCTION RESOURCE CENTER: This center will provide our potential farmers with
the necessary information for improving their stock and thus improving their
lives. Famers go long distances looking for animal production officers and most
of them give up. This leads to un-motivation which causes losses for the famer.
A resource center could provide advice on dairy, beef, drugs, care and pasture
management for the farmers. They will also get the knowledge of dogs and Rabies.
Dog bites are rampant in this zone.
3. SPORTS
CENTER: Football (soccer) is considered the world’s leading tourist attraction
sport. Most boys and girls struggle hard to learn it even if they lack the
talent because it is the only available sport at their disposal. Adding other
additional games will teach our children of the potential in the world other
than just football. Think of scrabble games which help our children improve their
English language. Then there are indoor games like table tennis, chess, lawn tennis
and badminton. If our children’s minds are broadened in this perspective, then
they can always learn to work hard for a living. This resource center will be
important for facilitating this.
4. VCT
CENTER: This will help the youth know their AIDS status and help fight the HIV
pandemic currently wrecking havoc throughout the country.
5. EDUCATIONAL
CENTERS: I pray other rooms be dedicated to other types of knowledge and
education. There should be more courses offered to the local community through the
TGD building since its evident that knowledge is power and everybody would love
to learn and get knowledge but the lack of institutions that are affordable
kills the dream. God, thank you for the TGD Community.
IMPROVEMENT
OF THE TGD BUILDING:
So far so good for the TGD
community in helping improve our lives. This building under their umbrella
organization has the potential to shine when it is complete. The building
stands out as modest in the area and I would love to see it completed and being
put into use. It is designed well and actually, the best, as from its outlook.
I’d just urge the donors to keep up its funding since it is better and, once it
is complete, it will be the best. Thank you to our donors for designing the
building for us. God bless you.
HOW
TGD HAS IMPROVED MY LIFE
I first thought that life is so discouraging
for me. I used to see my friends go out to town to take their Information
Technology course. They were paying such high fees that I could not raise them and
pay. There was nobody to raise that kind of amount for me to pay for computer
training.
When I heard about the TGD training
program, I could not afford to lose that chance of life time! I knew the
knowledge I had was incomplete without
the computer knowledge Everything is going the IT way. Ever since I joined the
TGD program, I have come to know so many things, especially about the computer
world. I have learned to type, store, paste and make changes to tests. I have
learned about the function formulas and other good ventures about computers. I
am not the same as I was last year. The TGD program has opened my eyes and
shown me that there are still more things I need to learn in this life.
Personally, the knowledge I‘ve attained from TGD is the only change I have
passion for. Also, the friends I have met due to the program! I cannot leave it
out. I must say that, too, has changed my life. Keep on the good work.
ODDS
On 8th may, 2012, my dad
passed on at around 12:30PM. The night before, I spent a sleepless night as I
saw him writhe in pain. I could not afford to wish for a good health for him
but God’s time for him had come. May God rest his soul in peace.
This stands out as the greatest challenge.
Since joining the TGD community as a student, I had to halt my studies for about
four weeks as I took care of my sick dad until the day he died. Another week
was spent on the funeral and burial ceremonies. This was my toughest time and I
could not smile or celebrate since I was a loser. In fact, a double loser
because I had missed my lessons for a month and I had lost my dad whom I was
working to save.
God is usually faithful and thanks
to the entire TGD family and classmates who prayed for me and I felt like the
burden was no longer on my head .The way I beat this challenge, I rest it upon
my colleagues at TGD who prayed hard for me and our family. Thanks to my
friends at TGD who stood by me till even after I came back. They showed me all
that I had missed while I was away. God bless you all. This stands out as my
greatest challenge but God is faithful and always graceful.
IMPORTANCE
OF COMPUTER TRAINING
The basic importance of the TGD
training program is the knowledge it has provided amongst the youth of our
community. I can now go to town and enter a cyber café and start logging into a
computer on my own without the support of the attendants. The program at TGD
has given me the SLELF CONFIDENCE. I look to the training with gladness. The
training has given me a sense of belonging, especially amongst my friends who
had already undertaken the training somewhere. Thank you for the opportunity
you gave to me.
PART
TIME ACTIVITIES
I love sporting. I play football
with my local club Mzalendo. I play in the mid-field position. I also love
scrabble games, table-tennis and chess because they are enjoyable, though not
locally available. When I get a chance to play, I always work hard to perfect
my skills. But because football is locally available, I play more of it.
I also love animals. When am free I always visit the farm unit just to
see how the animals are faring on…whether there is any animal that needs
treatment or if they are well fed. Most of my part time I actually spent with
the animals perfecting my profession.
No comments:
Post a Comment