A story to tell.....One day after being fed up and disgusted with loss of lives and menace cats had caused them, the rats sat for a whole day meeting--a meeting that came up with a number of outstanding resolutions to seek sustainable freedom for rats and to guarantee future for their next generation. One of the proposals considered best ever was to tie a bell on the neck of the cats such that when they are within the vicinity, the rats could easily note and escape to seek refugee. As rats jubilated over this brilliant idea, an un-healthy looking rat raised a last minute query to fellow rats....first he thanked the rat that came up with the idea of tying a bell around the neck of the cat and asked who among the attendees of the meeting can volunteer to go and tie the bell around the neck of a cat? When he asked that question, the question sent such a strong fear of death into nervous system of everyone in the meeting and for a short while all rats became deaf. His pardon was sought and he asked the second time, who among we the rats is ready to risk life for the survival and betterment of other rats? There was no immediate answer except silence which filled the meeting hall. Rats started staring at one another with hope and anticipation that some body would sacrifice and volunteer but nobody did. The meeting ended with no volunteer and since then to date, rats are still pray to their predators (cats). What I'm trying to say here is that we can have all these brilliant ideas, wishes and expressions but if nobody is willing to sacrifice morally, financially, physically, etc, we can be sure our resolve will be like that of the rats. Realizing our ambitious goals requires each of us steps of his/her comfort zone. We all know this and King Luther said it, "Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals" Time will tell whether our dreams are such strong held dreams with passion not to eat into our precious professionalism more so if needed to rescue our sisters and brothers still caged in the darkest side of history. As for Luther's sucrifice, his spirit must now be rejoicing in Obama's election after 44x4 years of blacks' struggle. His four little children must also be living his dreams... “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." With our dreams clearly outlined below, our children and grandchildren will attest to how much we sacrificed.
________________________________ From: JohnAJackson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, January 28, 2010 5:39:44 PM Subject: [WestNileNet] Program Coordinator or administrator Dear Friends. The issue at hand for discussion is whether we support the idea of getting/hiring Part Time program coordinator/administrator? According to the post by the president of WNF, we are all busy professionals in our careers, it will take longer time to get the house in oder to register WNF. To coordinate meetings, start paper work for registering WNF, we need a dedicated person to start the process immeiately. Various issues raised below need a coordiante effort in order to achive/deliver any tangibale results. a) Early Childhood Education b) Improving Quality of Education in Primary and Secondary schools c) Deforestations, Tree Planting, educating tobacco farmers, etc d) Water supply systems e) Hunger, Seed distribution, etc f) Hugher Education, Masters & PhD, etc g) Health care Delivery, Public health educations, etc h) Electricity and energy supply, etc i) Urban Sanitation and environment management, etc j) Raid Infrastructure, Bridges, etc k) Adult Literacy Education For us to be successful in attempting to address or improve any of these issues, we need to consolidate our focus, above all, some one must be committed to work with the WNF executve team. It is a simple Yes/No If you support the idea, please post your commends Avudria
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