Kamukwape's Diary

They have been praised, wished all sorts of good things, speeches have been read, matching performed and good allowances gotten...and just as I am typing this, the World has continued abusing them... the world has forgotten about them -its normal life. Why I hate one day commitments and prefer life long interventions to transform the way this World looks at and treats women... equality still remain such a luxury for most women . Equal Access to Information and Communication Technologies, education, health services, employment opportunities, equal participation in leadership and civic issues... still remain a struggle.   Our poor yet loving mothers still continue being scorched in the sun, in their motherly effort to feed the World and in the end be paid peanuts, their struggle of tiling the land continue not to be eased by unequal access to information, education, health services, and many other entitlements... How is each one of us taking it from today on wards, to ...

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A VOLUNTEER: AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE HEADTEACHER This is a reflection from my diary based on a a cold day experience while undertaking community work. Some people still do not believe that one can volunteer without necessarily gaining financially. Many more people still do not appreciate the power that lies in Volunteerism. I am one of the people who have spent my few years on this earth believing in this power and clocking 10 years of Volunteer work, this year 2016. We walked out of our office with Ronald Chiteta Chiwaya in preparation of the Community Outreach Project - which we have been undertaking in July/August, since 2013 in selected schools within Kitwe (thanks to Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, for the Student Volunteers). ------ We sat in that office, close to an hour trying to convince the School Manager to allow us to undertake a project that would benefit about 300 pupils and 30 Teachers of that school, with free Ba...