Rosemary

There is a strange wave of satisfaction in giving something to someone you know will never be able to pay you back. And throught my life i have also learnt not to let a day pass without my stretching my hand to give something to another.

It could be Lunch, a smile, a hug, love, anything you can name.People walk into your life in need of just a dime and human nature tells you to ignore them and move on with your life after all there are better things to do.

This christamas i want us to share something with someone who can never repay us in any way ever.

I have been thinking of all those kids i have seen and met so many times over the years who had nothing and no one to make them know the happiness of christmas.

3 months ago,actually on my birthday i went to visit a place called community transformaers(CT) in Mathare slums Nairobi.

I dint have much but the little i had, shared with kids who have never known love all their lives made a huge impact in my life.

I have a dream of establishing a rehabilitation center for abused, infected and affected kids in future and in this dream i see us celebrating christams as we sing carols by candle light. I intend to put a permanent smile on their little beautiful faces.

In my thoughts i see a lot of satisfaction, peace and love circulating among them that have had no chance for the same and i have made up my mind that in future this will not just be a dream am gonna make it a reality.

Lets us share these thoughts by giving another who can never pay back to us.

The formality of sharing gifts with family members and frinds can have a small extension to others who have never belonged

Merry X-mas braveheart women

Its strange how some days are just so sweet and others so bad you wish you could just rewind them.

I don’t know how many of you out there have reached that point in life where everything aint no more.

I have been there, it’s the most desolate and depressing place a human being can be. In My community I have realized there are so many people who know no other life, theirs is the hopelessness and emptiness of everything.

They see and feel the futility of taking any steps to make things better because every time they try… something or someone crushes their hope. I have been there and I understand.

On this bright afternoon I have a special message of hope to you in that situation. There still is hope for you and yours.

I read the following verses from the bible a few minutes ago and was inspired to inspire you.

Job 14:7
"At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.

Proverbs 13:12
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.

Even if you feel like the tree that has been cut down, I will tell you, you can sprout again and your new shoots won’t fail,

Persist on that longing, it will be fulfilled one day even though your heart is sick with hopes that keep getting deferred.

I have been there and you don’t know may be I still am, but a brave heart woman cannot afford to give up.

Its way too late for giving up.

I insist on persistence, because there is still hope for us

Rosemary Mwihaki Kahiga

Feel free to share this with all of your frinds and communities

It’s a great honour to be able to speak to hundreds of women just by a click on my keyboard. I had a tough day today and the office was very dusty and disorganized after the removal of this partitioning that had taken so much space.

While making my desk a bit more comfortable I remembered tomorrow is Worlds Aids Day and there you all were right in front of my eyes waiting to hear what I would say about this day.

I hence now take this chance believing that by the end of my “speech” we can all stand as one and face our fears and positively unite, reunite, mend the broken hearts that have been shattered by this pandemic called HIV/AIDS.

If we are not infected we are affected, through experience I have learnt of a policy which I now want to apply in this situation, and the policy is POSITIVE THINKING & ATTITUDE.

There are two ways to look at a situation, being, from the negative angle and from the positive angle. The decisions we make when faced by a situation determine the results. Pros and Cons of one’s attitude.

I stand today asking the brave heart women to develop a positive attitude which comes from thinking positively towards life in relation to HIV/AIDS. Don’t see the infected as a pain see them as a people you can serve.

Don’t look at HIV/AIDS as a Goliath even if it is, maybe all we need is a courageous confident boy with a stone to save the world.

Let us all unite and declare a positive fight to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS, to help the infected and affected to live a more comfortable life.

My small city here can be HIV/AIDS free, Kenya as a country can win the battle against HIV/AIDS, Africa can proudly be free of HIV/AIDS, and the world as a whole can be HIV/AIDS free, if we all play our small parts from our areas.

I have a dream of a different World, where people like you and me will be responsible enough to do our duties in serving the community, freely and without fear, our shoulders high knowing we did something to save a life.

The only person you can change is yourself; the only person I can change is I.
Change on this day is to me like the HIV/Aids Virus. It spreads.

If you change, your family is infected by your change if not they are affected by it.

One commercial sex worker off the streets to me is not just one, I see a chain, one rehabilitated drug addict to me is not just one, I see a chain, one HIV/AIDS patient living positively is not just one I see millions learning from him and adapting.

A seed given to two different people could mean two very different things. One might just see a seed but if you asked me what I saw I could tell you A FOREST.

Together you and I with a positive mind can rid the world off this pathetic Disease.

Finally Brave heart women, we all have one common and very special thing. The Dali Lama said “the world will be saved by the woman”, was this gentle man wrong? Of course not and no offence to the men. “we shall save the world… not like Christ but in that special ,strange woman’s touch way.

We are the mothers, a chance to bear, teach and mould the community; we are the wives, the pillar behind every successful man.

If a woman changes. …. The family will change…. the community will change….. the nation will change … I say the world will change and the chains grows.

If a woman will fight… the family will fight…… the community will fight….. the country will fight and YES I SAY the whole world will fight and I bet you HIV/AIDS is no stronger than a world united by a positive mind and attitude.

What do you say Brave heart women? I say yes we can