Mustapha & Fema club.

first of all I would like to thanks my dear blog readers, and to ask excuse  since you may find some mistakes I made, either in typing or in organizing and posting new posts, but I am a student in blog access, also in using a computer. But I am interested in sharing with you my life experience.
Today I  want to share with you my life experience in working with NDABO FE MA CLUB as a chair man of the club, actually challenges in the journey of making positive changes in the community is constant. Organizing Fe ma meetings, Events and tours to different schools for teaching, is hard work also. Only a big challenge is determining the interests of different club members, because in the club some members are real want to learn something from the club, and others just wants tours just because they will get an opportunity to go out of school since our school is boarding school, and students has got no many chances to go out of school.

musty with his cat.

Actually its hard to organize their ideas and make them one thing.I spent alot of time to make them to have one vision of changing the community, whenever nessessary I used leadership skills like to teach them how to listen as how life depending on, to show love to others, to respect some's idea, to over come limiting beliefs, to use their, to be responsible and accountable, as well as volunteering. Actually, any leader should know that challanges are constant in his or her leading journey, some time you may find that some problems has no answers, actually is not true, thats just short run period, you have to be passion, and to think more about it" Trouble in life is not that has no answers, but has many answers"  its better to know all the questions rather than knowing all the answers, because its easy to find answers when the problem is alread known, its difficult to find the answer for uknown problem.

Chicken raising project is now successful

Some times dreams might says Truth,

chicks.

Musty with chicken on his head.

I was dreaming on expanding my chicken raising project, and my dream now is successful, I started with getting fund from U.S DEPARTMENT OF STATES. Later, I went to my home village and start to make blocks to build a modern chicken home, as people bellow seem to make blocks. and kids were carrying my blocks from a river to home ready for building as fundi seem to do, after there I bought chickens as you can see your self chickens enjoying their meal.
Special thanks to American government for funding my project, also I would like to appreciate and acknowledge Mr. Honory Jerome for all of his duties in organizing and coordinating my project to get funded.

chicken reproduction.

Most of people in my village will learn and benefit a lot from my project, is my hope that my project will be profitable and sustainable, so that my dream of bringing economic, social and political positive change will become true."we do not need to go too far the success is just beyond".

Welcome

      I am Mustapha Rashidi from Tanzania in East Africa.  Some people try to compare my name with the name of the Lion King, it does not matter any way.

     In September 2009 I got an application form from Peace Corps office in Tanzania, which was for the Youth African Leadership Program, which supposed to be held in the United States of America.  I filled out the form, but with no hope that I would succeed.  But, on the beginning of November, soon after graduating from Ordinary Level education, it was evening when I received a phone call from my sister Mirinda. She was volunteering in our school and was staying with me and she told me that I am one who was selected to join the program.  To some extent you can't imagine how I jumped as if I had wings, or as if I am dancing Masai drums.  The next day I started preparation for the journey and on 28th November 2009 we started the journey to USA.

     It was a very long plane ride and it was my first time to travel outside of my country.  The food I thought to be very bad.  Also in USA I was faced with food challenge.  The breakfast was almost the same as our breakfast in Tanzania so I made sure that I ate a lot of breakfast to compensate because I knew lunch would challenge me.  But the trip was so good, especially on the subject with which we were dealing.

The trip opened my mind and I started to think ab out myself, my community, my Tanzania, and my Africa at large.  

     On the 29th of December I came back to Tanzania and started advocating in my community as a peer educators mentor as well as conducting different activities in health matters.  I wanted to change my community through micro-finance especially to women who have their entrepreneurship skills and helping poorer students go to school by paying school fees.  I thought the way was to raise income and only way was to start chicken rising project to raise enough funds for my micro-finance plan to be successful.  I asked for a little fund from Ashoka Youth Venture, but they did not provide it to me.  I was faced with a lot of challenges especially financial challenges but I did not give up.  I used my basic human resources to find different ways to make my dream successful.  Finally I succeeded to raise funds from Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Mirinda Gormley and started my chicken rising project.  I am hoping soon I will rise much funds for helping kids go to school.

     I thought this to be just a start and then I thought of expanding my ideas and the I got idea of exotic rabbit raising, which is in the process.  Funds from Bold Leaders program which is supporting my exotic rabbit raising project.  We are in the final stages and are hoping to share pictures of that project and the development of the chicken raising project in a few months.

I beg you to keep reading and sharing ideas with me for the impacts of our communities.

Any advice and ideas please send to my e-mail address: mustapharashidi@yahoo.com or mustapharashidi@gmail.com