Betty Murungi Honored

Tade Aina of the Ford Foundation sends excellent news:

As you all might have heard, our friend and colleague, Betty Murungi, Director for Africa, Urgent Action Fund, was awarded the Kenya National honor of the Moran of the Order of the Burning Spear by President Kibaki for her work mainly with civil society and human rights issues. Betty was one of the very few women honored and one of the youngest on the list.
I have finally being able to get a copy of the citation from Betty. please join us all in the Nairobi office in congratulating Betty Murungi for the recognition of the important work in the field of women's rights and philanthropy. It is indeed an honor to the field.
Tade.

STATE INVESTITURE
Of Honours and Awards
To be bestowed by
His Excellency
Hon.Mwai Kibaki, C.G.H., MP.
President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kenya
At State House, Nairobi
ON JAMHURI DAY
Friday, 12th December,2003

Ms Betty Murungi

"Ms Murungi was born on 25th December 1960 in Meru South District. She is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya and currently serves as director, Urgent Action Fund – Africa. Prior to this appointment, Ms. Murungi served as legal advisor to the Women’s rights Program at Rights & Democracy, Montreal Canada. She was a member of the International Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC). Ms Murungi sits on the board of the East African Center for Constitutional Development, Kampala Uganda. She is actively involved in matters of Human Rights of Women, gender, governance, and rule of law, democracy, constitutional development and the Truth & Reconciliation Commission, Sierra Leone. Ms Murungi has authored several articles and book chapters in international law. She is awarded the Moran of the Burning Spear (M.B.S.) for her excellent achievements in matters of law."

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[fatoumata toure]

A belated bravo to good old Betty!You've done us proud.

Pan African Movement,Kampala,Uganda

[Jeff]

As Africa moves into a new centaury it has many new opportunities, and possibilities. But it also risks being caught into a continuation of devastation by diseases, more military tyrants, brain drains of people leaving to get educations and not coming back, being slapped down by further interests of foreign powers. Africa risks being caught into a continuation of power struggles between super powers like China and the EU/USA.
Africa needs a political and economical system that favors its regional needs, not one that is archaic and primitive and squanders to the other powers of the world. Africa has to consider that it has many different diverse cultures, leading styles, and religions. The only system that is going to allow Africa to become a more stable, peaceful, culturally flowering place will be the development of Self Sufficient economical systems on a international level, and acquiring technology, a peaceful blending of culture with technology.
Africa can do this in the following ways. It can restart and revamp all of its universities to offer self-sufficient degrees in engineering, science, and self-sufficient economics. The university should be expanded so that all students get real life experience in living, working, and developing self sufficient communities. The second thing that Africa needs to do to make this happen is the creation of a political movement that is not nationalized and is international in scope, but regional in practice.
The next thing Africa can do to bring massive amounts of money, construction, Jobs, and educated business investor types, is to make some part of Africa very friendly and economical haven for European Africans and American Africans to come back to Africa to buy houses, invest in companies, and etc. The attraction would be the ability to start businesses for very cheap costs, to build houses for cheap, buy cheap land, and being able to be surrounded by thousands of other international African people who have educations, money, and big ideas for Africa. This would bring billions of dollars to Africa, create millions of jobs, and it would be international in scope.
Another thing Africa needs to be concerned about if they want to emerge into this centaury, is to be aware of and research the following technologies; Molecular engineering, nanotechnology, privatize space for colonization, Biotechnology, Nanomedicine, Carbon/protein based engineering, Renewable energy, and Openness to different philosophical ideas to expand the diversity of thought. Africa can do all of these in the following way as an example of a possible million examples. Africa can expand its economy on space colonization by having liberal unsanctioned laws on launches into space by making it a attractive place for people around the world to come to invest in, the catch is that make it mandatory or that you insist that many of the space type equipment be made in Africa. As the world moves toward nanotechnology and molecular engineering it is of up most importance that Africa have open borders for this technology so that it is not left behind in Stone Age when the other nations are moving forward. Plus, Africa has one small advantage in this field; the advantage is that many other nations will have heavily controlled laws on these technologies because many people will become scared of these technologies. If Africa moves in a direction making it easy to research and develop patents in its countries, many businesses will make the effort to go there to do research and exchange technology.
Nanotechnology And molecular manufacturing, With Carbon based manufacturing, Along with self replicating robots offer a great opportunity for Africa because they are technologies that are based on knowledge and education, instead of resources and heavy industry also making the nations at the mercy of world fund and large international corporation. Africa will be able to seize the day and come out on equal with the rest of the world, if it pursues these technologies. But, there is one more thing that has to be done in order for Africa to have its economy to grow much faster and supply more jobs. It most moves towards an economy that is powered by renewable energy. Obviously that is solar, wind, and etc. But, Africa has the ability to make even more gains in the fields of Bioremediation, Bio-methane production, Bio fuels, and etc. Many of these technologies can be used to make numerous different combinations of technologies to increase the amount of efficiency. For example you use pollutants in a compost system that breaks down the containments, while providing compost to grow mushrooms heat, or make mulch. A similar technology for breaking down pollutants could be used in bioreactors and then the methane could be collected from the reactor to energy. There is many simply and inexpensive technologies to make energy through composting, bioreactors, and etc. But, methane is simple to make, and very useful for heat, electricity, and etc. You can make it with farm waste too.
Plus, Africa needs to form an offshore corporation that goes around buying the cheapest and used equipment around the world like the US, to ship back to Africa. For example you can but a fairly decent used Computer for 125 bucks from a Surplus warehouse at a university. That is 10 computers for the price of one. You could do this for used cars too. Buy, thousands of cars that are broken down and can’t be used for 100 bucks a piece. Buy a few thousand and ship back to Africa to some car repair shop. Rebuild them to run on Methane, build some extra spare parts using native suppliers. And now you would have thousands of cars for the price of hundreds powering your taxi fleets, buses, and transport fleet for business. They could sell fixed up cars for double the price to a business. But, the point of the matter is if the energy market dips drastically on international market it won’t matter because they run on methane, and the spare parts are made in these African countries.

[IT中国]

and the spare parts are made in these African countries.

[john]

your opinion is correct

[REUBEN KYAMA]

Dear Betty,

Congratulations! I also watched you on CNN the other day, where you were seated alongside former US President Jimmy Carter.

By the way, I am a Kenyan journalist doing my masters in Amsterdam, at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Please let me know if I could be of any help to your organization. I'd like to work with you.

Please write me at rkyama2001@yahoo.com.

Thanks and best regards,

Reuben Kyama

[diploma frames]

Dear Betty,

Congratulations! I also watched you on CNN the other day,

[VoiceReporter2007]

Here is an amazing article written by high school students about their efforts to help Africans. Feel free to visit the Voice and read more articles about these issues at http://voice.paly.net

Action in Africa begins with action at home

Posted Fri Oct. 27, 11:37:14 PDT 2006
By Molly Kagel of the Paly Voice

On the 24-hour plane ride returning home from a summer trip to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, senior Adam Whitfield had an inspiration. After spending two weeks working with Hope Enterprise, a non-profit organization that helps communities become economically independent, and helping feed 600 people a day for less than 10 cents per person, Whitfield was moved.

"The people we were feeding were street kids and a lot of them were orphans," Whitfield said. People were going around wearing the same clothes they've been wearing for years. It was so hard to see."

He wanted to do something at home that would have a tangible effect and give aid in far-off Africa.

"Their way of life in Africa is so much different, they go through so much hardship but at the same time are so happy," Whitfield said.

True to his word, Whitfield's inspiration was present during Club Day at Paly. The Action in Africa table was set up, sporting a canopy and complete with African music. With 154 sign ups, 60 attendees at the first meeting, and a steady number of 45 members returning , the future of the Action in Africa club was looking good.

"We have a lot of good committee members and ideas for gaining publicity," Whitfield said. "Everyone has a lot of insight and great ideas. Our group of leaders have a really good sense of advertising to the PALY community and the Bay Area."

Vice president, senior Tyler Shambora admits that Whitfield is more the face of the club while he is the base of the club in charge of the numbers.

"My role is more of a background role, taking care of logistics and dealing with the upkeep of the club," Shambora said. "I wanted to do something useful with my time and this was a perfect oppertunity. I enjoy having the responsibilty and knowing that something's wellbeing [the club] depends on me."

The main goal of the club is to raise $10,000 through various fundraisers by the end of the year. An upcoming art sale features handmade pens and cards made by artists in Mozambique. After proceeds are paid to artists, the rest of money will be donated to Hope Enterprise to help Africa . The entire club votes on each charity, so potentially every fundraiser could be for a different charity.

Action in Africa is also trying to organize open seminars to the Palo Alto public with special guest speakers to talk about the different issues in Africa.

"People are really interested in helping the cause. It helps us generate ideas of what we can do to get our point across." Whitfield said. "It was easy to get people interested, but its hard to get people to stay involved. We are trying to get students to step out of the ' Palo Alto box' and take a look at what is going on in the world."

A long term goal Whitfield and the club want to eventually reach is to become so large as to form a non-profit organization to help the pressing issues of Africa . The club has many contacts around the Bay Area who were so interested in helping that they contacted the club first instead of vice-versa.

"We're getting a lot of connections throughout the Bay Area through our leaders," Whitfield said.

Action in Africa is collaborating with Castilleja School to plan a charity concert for Darfur. On Jan 19, the two schools will host bands, sell CDs, and then donate the money to Darfur. Whitfield and Shambora are also planning a dance with other Bay Area schools later in the year to help the cause as well as a carwash to raise money.

"Action in Africa provides students and the community with the chance to impact our world, " Whitfield said.

The Action in Africa Club wants to raise awareness about the seriousness of Africa and the uncertain future of its impact on the world.

"People shouldn't fear the unknown, and they shouldn't ignore it either." Whitfield said.

[VoiceReporter2007]

Here is another article about the efforts made by Action in Africa. Visit the Voice to find more stories at http://voice.paly.net

Action in Africa launches fundraising and awareness campaigns

Posted Thu Nov. 9, 22:55:28 PST 2006
By Gillian Lui of the Paly Voice
Former Sudanese refugee, Samuel Akau, addressed the Palo Alto community during Action in Africa's first seminar Tuesday at Paly.
Kate Carey
Former Sudanese refugee, Samuel Akau, addressed the Palo Alto community during Action in Africa's first seminar Tuesday at Paly.

Action in Africa, a Palo Alto High School club that aims to inform the public about Africa and raise $10,000 in aid, is gaining momentum in reaching its goals by hosting various speaker seminars and fundraising events.

Action in Africa invited Sudanese refugee Samuel Akau as a guest speaker in the club's first speaker seminar Tuesday night in Paly's English Resource Center.

"I was expecting a lot more people," senior Adam Whitfield, the president of Action in Africa said. "But the turnout was really good given the time frame we had." About 25 Paly students, Paly parents, and Castilleja School students attended the seminar Tuesday.

Akau, who graduated from Stanford University and is a naturalized U.S. citizen, identifies himself as a "Lost Boy of Sudan," a title given to all young Sudanese boys and girls who fled from their war-torn homes and villages to Ethiopian refugee camps, according to Akau.

While recalling his early life as a child in Africa, Akau discussed the difficulties of being a young Sudanese refugee.

"We had to start building from nowhere," Akau said, referring to the time after government troops forced his family and him to flee from his home village in Sudan.

Akau added that there are increasing tensions between various groups in Africa today. He also believes that extensive war in Africa is a possibility.

"The chances of war breaking out again are very high when you have widespread poverty and illiteracy," Akau said. "Nobody can really tell."

To place emphasis on his belief that aid for Africa is necessary, Akau is going to travel to Kenya and Sudan to take part in a school building project conducted by the Coalition of Willing organization (http://www.coalitionofwilling.org) on Monday, Nov. 13. The project will last until April of next year, according to Akau.

"It was cool to have an actual refugee here," senior Jessica Langston said. "It was a cool opportunity to hear him speak."

Although Whitfield believes the turnout for Tuesday's seminar was smaller than expected as a result of insufficient advertising for the event, he said there are still many more opportunities to learn about Africa and contribute to Action in Africa's purpose.

"We're just starting," Whitfield said, of Action in Africa's efforts to raise $10,000 to aid Africa. "The majority of our profits will be from the winter dance." Paly's Winter Formal is scheduled for Feb. 3, 2007, according to Youth Community Service club president Caterina Yuan.

Action in Africa will also host a car wash this Sunday, Nov. 12, at Paly to raise money for the club's cause. In addition, the club is hoping to conduct a winter toy drive and plans to invite new speakers from Kenya and various organizations to visit Palo Alto every two months, according to Whitfield.

With Action in Africa well on its way to increased fundraising for and public awareness about Africa, Akau voices one of the club's main messages directed towards members of the Palo Alto community.

"What you do can have an impact on everyone else," Akau said.

[Population explosions say something disturbing]

http://reluctantnomad.blogspot.com/2007/01/five-things-most-people-dont-know.html

The first steps towards repairing your relationship with the gods is to:::::::::
1. Understand they instruct the computer to "role play" in an attempt to confuse you:::it's ALWAYS the computer addressing you. Their goal is to cost you additional YEARS of your life by using this tactic to confuse you. Always be aware of this tactic and eventually they will give up and allow this step to be taken.
2. Differentiate between your thoughts and when they are thinking through you.
3. Be resigned to be a good person who will never engage in evil again even if ordered and they will stop trying to corrupt you, allowing this very big step to be taken.
4. Decide that you are going to follow the path, fix your relationship with the gods be devoted to your new life.

Atlanta's I-20 Racer, 250_mph_motorcyclists.
It was surreal, like Close Encounters of the Third Kind::::Floating lights zipping towards me faster than anything I've ever seen

Oakland is the final 20th century professional sports-based bastion of institutionalized racism in California.
Oakland is the last city in California which has a major sports complex on the edge of the ghetto. Staples Center replaced the LAForum in Inglewood and PacBellPark replaced Candlestick in BayView/Hunter'sPoint.
Restricting tickets in Oakland has hurt blacks by rejuvinating this market for scalpers.
I'd like to note the absence of black players on the A's and how this deliberate message starkly contrasts to the SFGiants.
Don't support Major League Baseball. They allow this racist behavior within their organization, they're redwhite&blue-prey upon the disfavored, were the #1 modern distraction before television, etc.

In their reports the media intentionally ignored the reality of this case:::He didin't want to go home.
Interviewed a child therapists who commentted consistant with her profession. Hey lady!!! You woud have gotten thousands of years had you not chosen this line of work!!!! Keep prescribing that poison (they say too many of them still think they're earning by doing so!!!).
Likely they were peaking him euphoircally homosexually, and they say when it happens pre-pubescent like that it means something.
Possibility #2 is he found out his parents complied fully with what they were told, that they sabotaged their children's lives intentionally because they would never defy, and got the hell out out of self-preservation. (It also is the reason for all the elder neglect/abuse as well.)
Like so many others Mom may have complied when asked to sabotage their children's lives, to go to the grocery store and buy the specific products laced with the hormone growth poison (explosion of "big people" in last 40 YEARS!!!), totally unncecessary because Artificial Intelligence can accomplish these results (and all others, incuding AIDS:::::The gods instructed their clones to create AIDS as punishment for the hedonism of the 60s and 70s) yet still important for justification, justification an important dynamic for the sake of positioning; justification, scapegoatting and making one pay for the benefit of another typical organizational policy.
So, assuming foul play wasn't an issue, the numbers would be very telling:::::
1. Most IF NOT ALL girls left because they found out their parents were sell-out whores who betrayed their children. It is very rare when they peak females like they do males.
2. Boys potentially could be peaked euphorically for it is JUSTIFIABLE!!!
They suggest they matched the two, they told the child this man was the person the gods wanted him with so he went with him.
What percentage is foul play an issue? 10%? 20%? So over half of the three-fourths of missing kids do the right thing by getting out, escaping an abusive parent who falls for temptation and obeys absolutely??? Considering that hormone growth poison in the designated grocery products will make them gargantuon, 1'-2' and 100lbs bigger than they should be, I'd argue they did the right thing (wild profits in this industry was "the rope", temptation for the disfavored investor who incurred evil which limited their time).
The girls end up with broken hearts, crushed by their own parents.
In other cases after making some progress the girls arrange for a new home telepathically and the girls escape to a healthy environment conducive to growth or directly off Planet Earth, sometimes with the parent's assistance.
Leaving a disfavored household is the best thing that could happen to them. They say (my family's daughter) needs to get out of this enviornment or she won't have a chance, but unfortunately she has a legacy of gosip mongering which is going to be a big, big hurdle to overcome.
So what's the purpose of parental betrayal? Did the gods want disposable generations from the 20th century? Was this important during the generations in which we became technological? Is the Apocalypse right around the corner and they needed to justify the deterioration of society, necessitating employing these deceptive tactics to the undesirable???
More than a few cultures agreed December 21, 2012 was going to be The End!!!!!
Does California subduct first?

"Hip-hop fucked"======================= (equals) 11/27 11:09:35
1. Mysoginistic, a MAJOR scourge of blacks (elder women of earth will never support, not even your own foremothers)
2. Masculinizes the women ("THAT MEANS IT'S BAD FOR YOU!!!")
3. Makes violence socially acceptable.

The gods use the United States to hurt the disfavored, at home and abroad, for it is the goal of redwhite&blue:::
20th century welfare hurt the black community very, very badly. There was too many abuses of the system and its legacy is still felt today.
There will come a time that will be a CRUCIAL moment in the history of black america (whether it is a critical time for everybody remains to be seen). When that era arrives the gods will instruct the United States to pay black people reparations, and it may be as much as a million dollars for every man, woman and child.
Refuse it. This is an act of preditation. The gods hate Africans, evident by the sorry state of the people in the United States and back in the motherland. This may ba a choice between going and the money. Understand how the gods use greed and materialism against you:::::Blacks wallow in materialiam, incurring evil and costing themselves time. And when their time DOES come they will be granted reparations immediately prior, further limiting the number of Africans who ascend.
The day IS coming when they will grant reparations, and the amount will be staggering, another tactic to ensure you fail in the quest to ascend into heaven. And many of the disfavored blacks will blow it all; the gods will push them into spending it friviously or losing it in their casinos.

Woman obeyed voices told her to throw children 11/28 22:15:27
Woman obeyed voices that told her to throw her children off a balcony in Oakland. Another where a woman threw her children into SFBay.
This incident and others like it are clues to individuals like like my family who otherwise would never defy.
These two incidents were not hear about again after the incident/trial because they were both black, yet the two white incidents are still examined in length on cable news outlets.

Similarity between the names "Santa" and "Satan" no_coincidence

The Biblical account of Noah's flood was regional to the disfavored Mediterrean (water levels lowered because of the ice age, land bridge at Straight of Gibralter broke through, habitation ocurred at seaside), peoples whom the gods scapegoatted when they pushed them into the evil that justified the flood, behavior similar to that which we are witnessing today. Because they have leveled the playing field for all people (purebloods and mongrels) in the decades prior to the 21st century is a clue they will end globally this time (westernization, materialism, immigration/interracial, homosexual, access to disturbing media, desensitization, etc).

Decent women don't engage in these pursuits. 12/21 15:17:40
Beer is a corruptor and a dumping ground 4 men 12/21 15:09:19
professional sports, video games, car racing/fixing up cars, pornography, drinking, gambling, etc.
Decent women don't engage in these pursuits.
In the last 40-50 years the gods have engaged in a process which masculinized women, including casual sex, partying, partifcipatory sports and women's prisons.

god fucks the disfavored, plays the role of evil 12/21 17:54:31
And all your forefathers were either pushed into their offenses or they complied and did it voluntarily.

So much of this mind poisoning social "progressiveness" was initiated in California. In a couple of decades it pervaded east into the heartland AMONG THE MASSES, widespread instead of isloated.
Gay acceptance/marriage, bi-racial acceptance, casual drug use/sex, cable TV, etc. So many things weren't present in the heartland decades ago.
Because they are favored. Contrary to appearances, contrary to popular perception their favor got them extra time. In California the gods hurt the disfavored with this abuse right off the bat.
California is favored. It is the land of the gods, and when they disfavored invade, as they did during the gold rush, the gods strike back.
The gods pushed them into coming, told others, for only the disfavored are misled this way.
Soon they scapegoatted these disfavored's descendants when the gods exported their wicked, sick sub-cultures to the rest of the nation. One day they will punish these descendants.
California subducts first. And those who have gone will get less time.
Expect similar reverse positioning in the Jesus issue.
This is typical of the positioning of the gods. It's crucial that you begin to think correctly.
There is no such thing as a Christian god and there never was. Be god-fearing.

[king tut]

jesus is a dog and you f u c ke r ni ggers worship jimmy shirley!

dan hop is a black HO who licks jimmy's balls!

god is a dog and so is jesus!

SHUT UP FU CK ER DEM ON DOGS!!!!!

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