Demise of My Friend Joseph Chaw

Shock, Darkness, silence, wonder, hands on cheeks, shudder, shaking lips that propel tears to flow down the face, astonishment and other such fill Ndanda and Tanzania after the news struck ground of the demise of our Joseph.

In that box, At a tender age of about 23, Lies a great Swimmer, Educationist, Upcoming Scientists and mathematician of our time, Positive minded friend, writer, reader and listener, debater, Teacher and all-seasoned company, a fellow volunteer whom though we route from different continents but decided to offer our skills and change lives for no-pay but survival to make sure we bring about sustainable transformation in Africa.

Though I am VSO (Volunteer Services Overseas) and Joe WAS American peace Corp, volunteering and making sure we make a difference unified us and was the pivot reason why we all met in Ndanda. Joe and I only saw each other that Thursday the 18th Sept 2009 evening when you visited my house in search of information (as was your character) this time to go for holiday and one of the destinations was white water rafting in not only my country Uganda but Jinja where I am born. I was glad to get you the route-map and contacts to Uganda. Little did I know the inevitable visitor (death) was just knocking and was stationed just up that mountain in Mbinga village where you found him.

I remember all the time we shared most so when whenever the gallant peace corps in the area came to visit, you cooked from my house, shared the internet, watched movies in my house, shared books, remember when we sat till late ours during the OBAMA debates, with the Dutch Dr. Francijn Van Eeklen and the Scottish volunteer Dian Milan and many more. The swimming lessons you gave us in Mtwara, the stories you told us about JF-Kennedy (RIP) and other Americans, Running and mountain climbing, to mention but a few.

Piet Hein Meckmann the Hospital Administrator of St. Benedict’s Hospital, Dr. Mia Hensburg of St. Benedicts Hospital, Suzan Held Germany Pharmacist, Rashmi Choudry the Indian social worker at the Ndanda parish, Elias and Bernice, Cristiana Cavareli and Family the Inter-team volunteers from Switzland where all shocked by the news of your demise.

We want to take this honor to pass on our condolences to the Parents of Joseph (Who hoped in their son to take on the mantle from where they would leave it), the President of the United States, The Senator of the state of New York, The Management, staff and fellow volunteer community of American Peace corps, the Headmaster, fellow staff and students of Ndanda Secondary school (where Joseph taught Physics and Mathematics) friends, colleagues and all that knew Joseph that people will never remember you for the time you live but what you do while you live.

GOOD NIGHT JOSEPH AND MAY YOUR SOUL REST IN ETERNITY.

FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY-Ugandan Motto

At St. Benedict's Hospital

Please you can read about my stay and work at St. benedict's Hospital on the Tanzania-Mozambique Boarder. By clicking on the following Link:
http://humphrey-ndanda.blogspot.com

About the Christian Business Leaders' Summit 2009

The CBL-Summit has been Postponed to the 19th to the 12th December 2009 same place and same city, this was due to our chief guest and Keynote Speaker Thomas Blackaby.

We regret for the inconviniencies caused.

regards

humphrey Mutaasa

Progress of the CBL-Summit 2009

We are progressing with the planning and now these are the details:
An events website has been developed and we are preparing to launch it
We have confirmed many speakers including American Author and Motivational Speaker CPA John Dillard
we are meeting our chief Guest in a meeting to discuss the details Friday next week.
The Vice President will attend on the 10th October 2009. According to the latest update.

Please we need more volunteers to help us in planning and implementation of the event.

God Bless

Christian Business Leaders Summit 2009: 9-10th Oct Kampala Uganda

The First of its Kind

We are calling up all christian business leaders in all Sectors in the eonomy and we twin, link up, share experiences, and lay strategies of working together to have a particular result at a given time. Things like building an online web-portal to advertise ourselves is one of the agendas. Every one will have a sub-domain and we shall host it with a dedicated server and it will be a very dynamic one.

We are also launching what we have called the CEO's Round table, We are also starting up a CBL-Wome's league, This Summit will be Annual and it should concide with Different countries' Independence days, because we believe it will rotate in different countries. We are going to have participants like the IGG, Commisioner General of the Uganda Revenue Authority, Director General of the Investment Authority, Christians from the Law Council, very prominent educationists, and Scholars, Bishops and leaders of Ministries and Heads of Civil Society.

We shall set up a Christian Community Bank later in the nearby future such that we start supporting our very own with the lowest interest rates or even Ministry development loans such that we can be what God say we are. " we shall Lend ....." This Summit will kick start alot of things that the devil thought we shall not attain. And thats why we need serious and very senior people to carry the vision together with us, I felt I needed to pour my heart to you such that you know what this summit is all about.

In setting up the CEOs round table, we are looking at starting business development and technical support trainings in business plan and proposal writing, work planning and strategic planning which some of our people have been lacking. We think we shall set up Business solution centres in different regions to make sure we offer our very own people the proffessional servies and consultancies that are very costly on the market. things like Acvcounts Audits, tax consultancies, Web based solutions, Business branding, marketing and Advertising/promotion, SME development, Twining and linkages, Human resource development trainings all these we shall do as the community grows. Such that christian Business are going concerns other than tax evaders and non-performers.

The Saying Goes: " What You Dont Know Might be what is Killing you..." So maybe this is what has been killing christian businesses. God Bless Humphrey