Funny thing is... I had backups. They stole them. This would be a great advert for why to have online backups of everything. I still have my Google account, so not all is lost. What is lost however is my faith that ICT can save EVERY community. In some communities, the lack of security will hamper any ICT4D progress. Kenya needs to deal with her security issues through employment. Employment can come through ICT, but that will only happen when there is security. I hate to say it, but there is a culture impunity here that permiates all levels of society. I am not sure that is something that we are properly addressing.

Crystal

for everyone that has offered support: Asante sana. It is a time for tough decisions and your support is very comforting.

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Clement Ongera <cnongera@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Crystal
Pole sana. I cannot imagine what you are going through, but I "feel"
you, having been thugged time and again losing everything, facing a
"simplification" in a weeks' time....

Dust up, find a reason to stay in Kenya, the reason that made you come
in the first place, the reason that made you "vumilia" all those years
because when you stare at the void too long, the void stares back at
you.

After every dark night there is brighter day- Tupac says. Believe that
tomorrow will be better. Have courage, emotional strength, keep your
faith and IT fire burning, because
"Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first
suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion,
from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers."

* Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859)

Sorry to say this, but make back ups. No excuse!



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Crystal "Naliaka" Watley Kigoni
Voices of Africa for Sustainable Development
crystal@voicesofafrica.org
http://www.voicesofafrica.org/

"You must be the change you wish to see" - Gandhi