"Is my life making a difference to anyone?"Have you every had that thought? Have you ever laid awake pondering whether your presence on the planet is actually making a toss of difference to anyone; acting as an asset to the universe or just adding to the noise?
Maybe it's my age or maybe I've got stuck in a melancholic groove, but I think about this question a lot.
We've been here for over 7 weeks now. And Trevor and I have been yomping up and down the country with our kit, training people in grassroots communities to discover their awesome potential, despite unbelievable barriers of poverty - poverty in the body and in the mind.
Our focus has been to inspire and educate people into a place of empowered thinking, where they can begin to say, "Yes, I can change my life if I change the way I think. Yes, I can change my hopeless and stuck thinking. I can break the cycles of fearful thinking that have kept me trapped and small and imprisoned in my head all my life".
When the 3 day Leadership for Hope training comes to a close we have now started collecting, with the use of clever mobile technology, the impact and stories from those who attend. Then over the following 2 months we continue to email them sporadically to see how they are doing and to continue giving support.
So here are some of the impact stories and I'll just let them speak for themselves.....
Story 1: Actually i've shared the training with so many people. I have also trained my own partner who gave birth 2 months ago. She left my house without reason, simply because I am poor. Her family are much better off than I am. When she got a baby she went straight to her parents and said that she didn't want to come back again to me. During those days when we were on training I was stressed because of her - how would I survive away from my son; the only son I have? I thank God for the training because it gave me the courage and belief that she'll be back into my life again. At the very moment that you texted me I was sitting next to her, convincing her strongly to come home. When I got that message from you I told her about the training again and she read the message you sent to me. Surely she's now convinced and she has promised to come back to me! Last week I made an arrangement to meet her mother which I did and now am free to see my son any time I want, thank you!
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| Charcoal for sale - the cause of the decimation of woods and forests |
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| Life! |
Story 2: Hi sir, thanks for your message. I've managed to share and train with 45 people, 30
of them are my workmates, 10 from the community and 5 from upcountry. Anyway thanks for the leadership skills you
gave me. Be blessed
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| Life! |
Story 3: Since I took up the pen for my life and believed that I am a leader, my
neighbours and I have agreed to come together and start a poultry project,
mainly laying chickens. This can help us supply the eggs to the people around our area at a lower price. God bless you, your education has
transformed me abundantly.
Story 5: I planned a family gathering at our
rural home and after training them about leadership, we agreed on two projects
that we shall be doing together
1.fund our sister who finished fourth
form to get to university,
2.buy cattle for dairy farming. We started raising funds for both projects. So far we have
collected 55000KSh for the projects.
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| Our beautiful local Maasai market |
Story 6: Those 3 days of training still sound fresh to me each day
when I wake up, thanks a lot.
I started by training people around about leadership.
Personally I am working on finances. By July I want to have saved enough to
have posho (maize flour) mill.
Story 7: I am glad you still remember your trainee. Thank you so much, I have trained more than
300 people. Also my group and I are working on an income generating project.
Story 9: Thank you for your encouragement. I meet with 12 people. I tried to tell them the importance of working together and they accepted this. We started
a project of buying a clean water tanks of 3000 litres. For every one month we buy another one for
each member. They were very happy when I
was teaching them about how to be a good leader
