 she never finished sign she wanted you proudly be facing the fear I don't know about you, but honestly, minasuki me kana pimoa what do you mean, take a picture of an insect or an animal that you think is alokas and then we discuss ah, kone ni funze izo, vitun kifa nya Kcm, kini pigapigapas GKC what happened all that education you gave me are you now trying to tell me you lied to me, there's so much going on and I'm not even one for conspiracy theories Unafi lage How? How? Atwaitfifo on Facebook, atwaitfifo channel, on Twitter, hashtag is why the one is a beautiful Monday. Only blue thing about it should be the dress I am wearing. Please be happy, it's a bit cold, but it's going to be alright because we are the Lidias Breakfast Show around. My name is Valentine or at Kulami Val and today we are starting off the day with giving back. Giving back. It's just when you give back to the society to say bless you and bless what we are doing here. This is basically it. And with me in studio is one very well put together gentleman. Hello. Hello. Hi, how are you? I'm fine, thank you. What's your good name? My name is Anthony Geshoki, but you can call me Tony. That's what my friends do. Yeah? We're friends! Okay, I like that already. What's good Tony? I'm Kaji. I'm Kaji Zuri. Lot's of rain. I've driven in the rain for like one and a half hours. Wow! So I assure you it's been a rainy morning. In the morning? Yes. And it's barely eight, okay. But anyway the Ali Baba here catches the warm. That's quite true. Are you sure? Have you seen this warm that has been caught? Sometimes the warm is too early for the bad, but in this instance I'll bear it. Yes, what kind? Tell us why you're here today. What are we talking about? I want to talk about a group that is making a difference in my home area. That is Mokorwaini, a place called Gevi. We have a group called the Gevi Humanity Forum. What we do is that, let me give you maybe some bit of history how we started. Normally when we have funerals, we have this with some groups that we create. So we create them after the event we kill them. I've been in multiple groups like those ones. So in one instance one of our members lost a loved one and we created a group, had a committee and all that. But when we were done with the event, some guys thought why we kill this group and yet it's bringing people from the same area that probably when something else happened, like the same thing, una nid kua leta badu in the same group. So we said let's keep the group. And if something happens, we can just tell the person, just join this group. Do you think if it's a wedding or an announcement that is happening in our home area because it brought very many people together. So in the process, a few guys lost their loved ones, they used the group. Then one day we had this issue about an old grandma who had died. They were unable to get funds to release the body from the mochari. And we thought, ay come on, this is our person. Okay, very well known about it. I think she did have anyone. So this is our person. This is a person from our home area. Why don't we try something about it? So we asked the guys in the group, hey, do you think we can get this 30,000 to release somebody from a mochari to marry them? And they were like, why not? Kidogo, kidogo we had like 50,000. And I was like, hey, things are happening here. So we managed to get the lady married and all that. And it has metamofiased into other things because like currently, we've done about three Christmases whereby we contribute and take goods to the vulnerable in the society. A bit of Christmas cheer. I like how that has evolved from, okay, this was because there's a need. Now that we're ready, we might as well now find people in need and do something for them. Precisely. I have a special question for you. Yes. I make sure I let you know that you have youthful viewers watching you. And there's a disconnect. It's just Christmas. I'm at time too. As in basically when large gatherings are happening and all our cousins have to go and all our people have made us go to shops. That's usually the only time we feel connected to our homes. How do we change that? How do we... Because life is a full circle by the way. Are you born? You want to get away? You want to see things? You will come back just where you started from. So how can we be more connected? I'm seeing some good things happening especially with the group. The older folks are actually making their children join the group especially the working ones. What I would advise our youth especially is to just squeeze in these kids. Why are you saying that? What is this disrespect? Are you talking about the kids? Wow. What kind of news is that? Sound. Okay. So you see what happens is you bring these kids up in Nairobi, Sijiwee, Wanenda youth. But once in a while Wanenda youth group, Sijiwana Fundishwani. And now the difference between that youth and myself niku kwa mugumu. Okay. What do you want me to say? Sikaimahad. No kwele. Because the percentage of it may look very soft. Baby face. I might look soft. Nidevoto. Nidevoto. I might look soft. Niki zitu atu na kata uwa. Uwa uniform na kudisha shule. Nidevishule. But okay. Maybe it looks. But nimele luwushago. I know both sides of the coin. So nimekata. Nepiagras. Nimekamuangumbe. I've done all that. So I compare myself with my cousins who have been brought up in Ayana and I'm thinking I'm better off in a way. Because these guys, the things that shake them wungalena shangat. So that is a problem. Nimebe mami pemi. Niki pez deka. Ocha. I know we used to have a youth group in Chacha whereby kutuna pelika the vulnerable in the society. Maybe that's why I'm so passionate about giving humanity forum. Uwa luwumad. Uwa all much kwa mami. Tungi muna hapelekea. Sazingine kulema. Kuna misutia kulema. Kuna domuna lima. So when I joined my working life, isima stress is ofisi sijui atuna stressika sijui ma deadline. Nkum. Focused. Akuna stress. Kamu mebeba dhara. Ntia dhara ni nini. Ion Nepiagras kwa shoulder. Deadline ni kushtua. So wa pelikeni uwa ocha. Let them meet their cousins. Let them see their cousins. Ume shimbo kusoma. You know some of us are professionals right now. And the youth that we're calling ma 24, 25 year olds. Saywa kuna ma job. Make them go home. Like a friend of mine na jo. The daughter goes home. Ushia go. Anakafu like a week and I say, they are the folks. Analimalimaki dog. This girl, you cannot compare her na umu enyana pandama. Three and end at our coach movie. Ha ha ha. Uwa shiki. Nkita kwa kusama. Ikaya su shida bino reset. Slegui. Kusum kata ma slegui. Iki not slegui. Nizas much man. Nizawise. Ha ha. But slegui miska, some of them are smach. Iki, it's a way of life. But it's just a very common phrase. I don't even know what it means by the way. Na nimi discussi topik matakada I still do not know what to speak with it. But I am feeling that perhaps since today we're talking about empowered women. This has also had nothing to do with what he is coming to tell us. But it's a convo. So we're going to ask how to deal with empowered women. And I would like to imagine empowered can also mean iwa sasa akona akona iwa iwa kwen da hocha nokfainizu witu na akona pia working life. Does that make someone empowered in your opinion? I think from maybe my own perspective empowerment fee at umeva 2nguun enda ofisi and you push people around and do your stuff. Empowerment can also be empowering. Unona sasa iwa akona ofisi but at the same time who are you empowering to be like you. And fortunately if you're going to talk about the empowered woman nikianga lef from my own side of you, empowered woman ala gopu asa ziniina. Ya, why? You know lady who is standalone na amejiweza kuna bile ana sumamishanga kituwa na pwangalia kituwa. Eh, ziniina, what do you have to sumachan uenguangalia na sumapasitobu and then it's a good person. Eh, even if it's a good person. Like I there these programs called Engager if you look at the empower, those ladies who say they are empowered Grama bana the vocabulary they are using through so many ways. The poise when they throw me up even a fidget shanga what to say next but this is empowered woman you know in this corporate strategy what we're doing is we're looking at changing the world one step at a time from the global I don't know if you're going to know how much I'm going to say I don't know then you say I'm going to say onamangaluna nashanga mazelo nukona fukiri anichukwa so do you know what I'm going to say I don't know if you know how much I'm going to say I'm going to say I'm empowered or I'm going to say I'm going to say I'm going to say I'm going to say okay the empowered woman more often than not is a scared woman to an extent because men we are used to be dominant we are the guys who go and fetch but the empowered woman has already fetched a mejenganyu most of them a konagari anishina posh place webanuna jijenga onafikirim taputena sangapi I don't know how I'm going to describe the empowered woman omenifungu liya macho so now I have a dance guys when we come for the conversation all right so moving back to swiftly to the kivi humanity forum why do you call it the humanity forum why not just the forum why we put the humanity forum bit of it okay you see what we do more often than not that we have handled like 19 cases actually about 20 that in terms of money that have passed through the treasure of hands we take hands being treasure like four guys who do that in the committee we've gone through about a million and 50,000 like that amount in the last two years wow so what happens is we require members to have contributed two thirds of the occasions that we've had to contribute like for example if it's 19 to the months mi nili hati yuokalasi afte mazin mati so for example you're supposed to have contributed like 13 times out of 19 so if you contribute you have contributed like that if you lose a loved one a mother, a father I think a sibling um or you have a medical bill that is too much then we tell members okay we have a member here in trouble how much can you give so on average you'll find you'll get 70 between 70 and 100,000 she means depending sometimes on the time of month and the drasticness of the issue okay it's not what like drasticness but I felt it yeah I felt it yes of the issue so yeah that's how we hope we operate does a member then have to repay you quote unquote like do something to have gratitudes okay the only thing we require from you is that help others so that we can help you so the issue is it's the well vicious that for example if you have an issue and you want members to contribute for you and they contribute we expect that if I have an issue you also contribute for me versus the other member so the only difference now in this case maybe we might not look at it from a point of give a give is when you are doing the humanity thing now the humanity thing is where a member comes and says Tony or whoever we have a committee so the committee represents the different areas in Gethi Ishamara I don't know Kefura Boudi I know guys probably are listening to me if I didn't mention your village I mentioned Bada don't blame me no problem so what happens a representative comes and says there is this case in our area that needs help so we ask that representative what about that case why do we need to help don't they have relatives don't they have people who are working because there are some cases we've said now I mean Val we know Val is working so if Val's sister is not going to school or brother we want to find why why is Val not doing anything about it and sometimes you might find Val has too many things on her hands so what we do then we come together and say okay members Val has been a member for a while and she needs her help let's contribute so we check first have you done two thirds of the contributions that we have eight times it means that have you helped others for us to help you but if you have members will have no problem because you see a group has to have rules other is there are guys who will use it for their own benefit then I could see myself tempted I don't know we had some deck meeting the other day some vulnerable guys we met in the course of distributing foodstuffs and all that and quite honestly they gave the members listening especially professionals those ones who are employed maybe you've not employed but you're getting something we need your help because we have some guys at home we have some people who need help lots of help because we imagine that everything is fine because it's not being highlighted but when you group like ours and you're the ones distributing my goodness when you're in the kwenyomba you're in this old lady and you're in bed the son or whoever is taking care of them is no better than they are and they have a lot of help and they have a lot of help and they have a lot of help and they have a lot of help and they have a lot of help and they are and you can see whatever the things they are suffering from is they have money they can sort themselves out like there is no money as you know if you are doing 20,000 like you can there are no diagnostics and there are people here after partying without 20,000 imagine imagine NHIF we encourage but there are members to join NHIF and all that so some of them get help from that but no I just figure I kill them too so those things you think are no more are not no more we can say if you are a machinani but there are people here and there is this guy who used to be he was not 100% but he was he used to operate he was a nice guy used to love kids so some of the people here were carrying a package and they were crazy and they were too lazy as he ordered an old man unfortunately after a few months that I did I will go for a roast very nice guy I will go but I will tell you that he was a very nice guy he was very nice so he was like wow he was a man and you know he is a house he is a human and he is a man it is the church that used to sustain him so he was very nice he was very heavy we had some videos of the same thing wow wow wow but he was very nice he was very nice he was very nice yes please I would really thank you I would say when he was very nice you It's a very small thing, but it makes a huge difference. That's why I'm saying, if there are some Gezi members who are watching us, Gezi Humanity Forum, tafada li kujilipu sa idea hawa tuweyu. And the munde home mongili wa zazue ni piya. I think we should take this opportunity to give everyone iyo ni ni, if you can help the people back at home, it doesn't matter that you're not from the same place, meza kumitoka, any other corner of Kenya, but I guess if you can, you should, right? Even at the parts of Kenya, by then I came to realize from the group, there are some people who want to help, but how would you want to say the other part? Talk to those people immediately. Like now in the group, there are those who tell me, Tony, kwaigiri mbao, lakini usi taji jiniangu mahali fulani, si mne daku visit place fulani, eneni mpele kelitu. They don't care who you give, they just know that whatever you're doing is right, and they, okay, let me tell you something also about our group, why it has survived so long because groups die. People left. People live, you know why? Because muna pata pesa as a committee, I don't know a lot of money passes through our hands. Muna kula? When will we be able to live? Me mimi bila nimelewa, nimelewa na, what way you can get kula, waka jo nimi kula, pesa wana in the zone. So what has made that group survive is the integrity of the committee members. Those guys wakitu kwa pesa, wana fanya bile nafa. So if we send you that 70,000, 70,000, and we check, empeza message umetuma. So if it is buying, like for example, when we bought whatever you're buying for Christmas for the family, wunene na kitabu kiante kwa, everything costs. Every, kama ni lunch mimi me kula, jumita kula lunch at some point, muna indika, and we account. So because of that, our members have grown to trust us. So guys, we have guys from the states, from Dubai, I don't know from where. Pesas, to kisha matu, we have this and we want to sort. It's na pujanga too. Simply because they know their money, it's that part of our strength as a group. You're talking like a grown up, apu kwa kuna beliti? Me grown up. Masen. Okay. Kosh. Ya. Siju kwikikwa panel. I think we just have one day for mantop. Because when you know again, na ni nice. It's very how to say. Ah, lua wadz nan putes. Siju kizimene. Siju kizimene. Siju kizimene skamagika. Siju kizimene. Masen. It's okay. Anyway, so maybe in conclusion, you give us where we can find you and maybe if there are a couple of well wishes out there who want to donate or, you know, be part of the society or part of helping. Wakungem kuna. How can they reach out? We own Facebook as Gefi Humanity Forum. So myself and the committee members, we are admins. So if you want to contact us, kutitu kwa ayu? A page and write something we'll get back to you. The guys who have contacted us especially from home like that because quite honestly, we intend to formalize the group as a like sort of a foundation so that we can have a bank account and all because when we are fundraising nowadays, we do it via people's mobile MPS accounts which is quite tiring because it keeps mixing with your cash and balancing the same is a bit difficult. So we want to formalize it so most likely we'll have a bank account and a few signatories but right now you can get us through Gefi Humanity Forum Facebook page. I will do the gibi spelling because G-I-T-H-I All right, so what are we looking at here? That's Mary and Simon that's a vulnerable member of our society and old lady. You're very diplomatic, vulnerable member of society. Yes. So this was the reason we visit. Yeah, so we visited her a few times she takes care of a few of her there's a daughter and a granddaughter who are not quite right vulnerable as well so this is a family that you cannot not visit when you are doing December visits. Yeah, so this is a place called Kiyangara. Wow. What's in the bag? It looks heavy. We hope that we know what our people need because we ask members view of what to buy So that gentleman you were seeing the previous photo comes with loads of bread he works for a company that is very generous with us this big guy? Yeah, that big guy with a white cap he's called William Oteidia Wow. He's been an awesome guy imagine what we women wear it's really nice we have bread we have bazanga all over and simply a member who is generous during Christmas so that's an accountant by the name Kahozo these guys are engineers so don't just think we are kawagai we are sorry these are professionals in the summer and that's where it works because the structures are there and these guys are known and since come out on Afanya Tufa so you can see that these are another homestead so you know the cars can't get there and by there you can donate it in Nigarizie to set it on a combo because we love our home area God bless you so this is Karoqi an engineer somewhere and he is a buggy he has a lot of money he has a lot of work he has a lot of money he has a lot of money he has a lot of journey he has a lot of money he has a lot of money so he has a lot of money he has a lot of money he has a lot of money so that guy in the middle this is the same family I think he was in the other end so that guy in the middle we are thinking of he wanted some construction imagine anataka two toilets here is a cement do majizia cekuyangusha because they live with their mother that's the mother sitting together with him anataka two hiyu so we are thinking the four of us we are trying to see how we can organize some KiloGo funds to maintain a structure that will not keep falling we do toilet is necessary imagine those are the things that you can do what we can do if we want to bless no we can't live here kibisa kibisa kibisa so we were coming together as a group we will do kwa kakeki to we call a city water just getting to know each other we do group and we call to what's up you know guys when we met so we could introduce this one when do you tell me could be just in your know that in my other committee man what the technology is awesome imagine doing everything on what's up people trust in you on what's up giving you money because you sent a what's up message apu kwa what's up nigile so vinyasi tu meskia hora stories watu kukoniwa manze someone tells you the entire need oh fund raising fund raising 100,000 the next thing we don't know where they are much na monea dubai somewhere so being so i don't know how you build that no what we do is where we do checks at the home and I'm pijanga makina my aunties after father was church na moneza tu miambio maali fulani kuna kitu fulani is it true so they confirm because we can you know otherwise you make a small mistake these guys now you start not trusting so we have to be sure that whatever whoever we are helping needs help okay the last thing I want you to address is tumongelia again I said maybe there's a disconnect between youth ish na ushago that means when you hawa kwa po sayi maybe amajale lewa po maybe there's some type of disconnect what would you like to tell unto atau like why why should they they care about what's happening machinani yes nikwao yes yes they know they go there every kismasama however often you go but why should they want to help I'm thinking the biggest the reason I would have waki umedu ushago squeeze what was somi because of poverty watu wa na malizia mutu wami fika class 3 anakata kusoma ama anakata klasita na apita na kusadu ukenda ushago patem tu kama uyo it's very easy to assist them if you are seeing them na hawa tu waki kuja when you come with your folks alafumu mwenda ushago umutum spom sayi gia was asi when you want to have a retire na when you want to retire anga squeeze onarudi waki ushago awa tuimu anyi mwenda kata kukuja kwa sa idea ma kazi sizi anyu kwa somesha mutu kumuna kwa gari zi anyu wasubu yu muki yamka haina mataya uragit kwa sababu why I think they should come back home and see what how things are happening and help ndu wakam ukiskiya yu village anyu kunam tuia somi na kuna job du nungia ma yu tiniye wana job na wanyi awana kapa wanyi awana gezi huma lewa leteni sayi letu na du muka zunguka let them see the other side of life so that we can arouse their compassion yu wana jo sa yu tiniye na pukiongelia paka mawoni you can't quite put your feet into it na mina jo I on my youth sayizi I have 19-year-olds 20-year-olds who are contributing ata kama kame kana kaki banda pali jukuna watua kuna kiki banda kuna miso umpukoteni kama na miso umpukoteni niza tumasotatu jwa miske suju nani aendi shule yama suju nani a patifu diakutoshi ama suju nani yama lalahozi ato yu youth wako sayi na yuna contribute na mumbe badekuna ishufu nani leta dunu na umulata usiagwa wacha katenipi egras wacha kumtizumu kene kato na distributizi vitu nju asheke both sides of the nju ube ama yu youth wana jo tuku kachini sa zingina na kuna series bada na kuna series mulete tumonisha life the other side na ata grow up ati om tu om gu um tu strong that's why we're having depressions nowadays because we won't expose them there are there are thresholds there's a stress ziko hapa chinisana lakini utunata kha zikwe pane juu so once in a while show them the other side of the you know there are some people who are doing asema philanthropy should be done in secret but some of it cannot be done come as easy we can't do it in secret that's true juu we are so many we have to account for members money and how do we account kama tuli se matunenda 25 families we have to have 25 photos and 25 birds dada and you have to account it like that so 25 latini om ma yutfuzenu yo december to wede nao to zumuke nao wawone de vulnerable members of society deo to oki patajobone juu okuna one juu a ata kumu zaluwa nai matakumu toka ocha yo gramada ko ocha badu neza make a difference na awa to toa kisomu wakiwa ocha wakianda wakuna adi eti piwa on zuku sa idea watu aga watu aga that was vanda stick so guys maybe perhaps juu na juu a pesa mzinga wei ko si tofana evi at least just one weekend to se mahi pesa mzinga to get to a site let's do something for someone just one day one uto mea promise uto mea tumbo at what platform Facebook at why254 channel on twitter hashtag is why in 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