time to stand

You must have been living in a hole for you not to know of what is happening in Kenya. On December 2007 we had a peaceful and civil election. Unfortunately for us our hands were tied behind our backs by our location in the UK, Asia, US, Australia and other parts of the world. But that was ok, we had our mothers our fathers brothers cousins sisters uncles aunties.. ||yeah we Kenyans have big families big families|| who went out in large numbers to represent us at the ballot. We followed the news through Daily Nation and the EA Standard and Nation Media servers crept to a crawl due to the number of hits by us living outside Kenya wanting to keep up with the results of the elections. Some of us who had never heard of Jump TV heard if for the first time in December 2007 ||yeah it shows live KBC|| Then came the media back out and then the news of the violence.

Homes and churches were burnt shops were looted people were displaced. It is sometimes difficult to imagine this is the Kenya we left behind, it looked more like one of our war torn neighboring countries. As we watched in relative safety through the internet and made calls to our families ||and some of us had not done this in a long time|| we learnt that most of them emerged unscathed....

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If you are reading this and you lost a loved one in the post election violence I offer you my condolences.

We are still reeling from the election aftermath that was brought about by our leader's greed and irresponsibility.

Peace is beginning to come back to Kenya being as we were always a peaceful people and We wait to see the effects the unrest is going to have on the Kenyan economy.

If there is any good thing that came out of the election violence is that it united the Kenyans in the diaspora. As you read this from whichever part of the world you are living in right now I am sure that there is something being done in your area. Here in the US, walks being are being organized in the East Coast in DC to help raise awareness in the West Coast in Sacramento an huge event is being organized to raise funds for the people who were displaced.

If you have not gotten a chance to do anything and are feeling helpless being so far away, do not settle, do not ignore because the problem is still there and there is still something that you can do. This are not the elections where the only power you had to effect change was to try and convince your relatives and friends on which candidate to vote for, now you can actually make a difference. The rest of Kenya is still nursing its wounds and so we cannot expect it to do much, but We who watched the turn of events through the relative safety of the powerful internet and can now in turn harness this power to feed the displaced now living in jamhuri grounds. Just click on the link and it will take you to the website. This people are on the ground and are making a difference. Let us support them. Forward this email to all the people that you know and let us stand together and make a difference.

http://www.lightindarkness.org/outreach/