Shiriki: Maragua Project: Shiriki in South Afrika

Wednesday, 9 May 2012

Shiriki in South Afrika

By Ras Benaiah 



In our post titled “Blog
Competition Runner-up” on this blog, we stated with a lot of joy our emergence
as the runner-up in the East African region in the Youth in Agriculture Blog Competition (YoBloCo). As a result, the Technical Centre for Agricultural and
Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) has sponsored us to attend the prize-giving
ceremony in Johannesburg in the land of Azania. 

The ceremony will be part of a conference organized by The International
Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD) Africa Chapter,
whose theme will be “e-Agriculture for
Improved Livelihoods and Food Security in Africa.” 

We feel highly honored to have this great opportunity of
representing the farmer whose efforts keep the nation from starving. We are
greatly thankful to CTA for sponsoring Shiriki Organization in this forthcoming
prestigious event. Personally, I am glad to be the one representing my
Organization in the conference.

Thus, I shall be leaving Nairobi for Johannesburg on 19th
May 2012. Events of the ceremony shall begin on Monday 21st till 23rd
May. We look forward to establishing important networks internationally with
individuals and agencies working in the occupation of agriculture which a sacred task graciously
conferred upon man by the Almighty to serve as the source of his well-being and
the basis of his wealth. 

We now have added hope and assurance that once again, through Information
Technology, we will help sensitize people on reestablishing the real wealth and
the economy of our beloved people of Afrika, which is primarily based on agriculture.
It is a fact that today small-scale subsistence farming holds the key to the
current global food crisis and at Shiriki Organization we have been and will continue
to volunteer our skills, knowledge and expertise towards empowering the rural
folk practicing small-scale agriculture.

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HAILE SELASSIE I FOUNDATION, incorporating SHIRIKI CHARITY ORGANIZATION, is an organized nation of volunteers from the four corners of the world who have set aside personal distractions to commit to a higher course of serving humanity and creation at large.

Our ultimate objectives are encompassed in the I-vine edict of the Lord of Lords, Emperor Haile Selassie I that the Hungry be fed, Sick nourished, Aged protected, Infants cared for, Naked clothed and, Ignorant instructed.

Recognizing Afrika as the cradle of civilization, and a land of abundance in terms of human and natural resources, we have set out to work with the continent’s local communities to tap into these resources, utilizing and conserving for future generations.

Some of the ways in which we are doing this include setting up organic agriculture farms where people can participate and learn, using the arts, music, public education, media and other forums to re-educate the Afrikan population about sustainable natural living.

We acknowledge the youth population as the vehicle through which Afrika’s aims of self-sufficiency and cultural independence can be realized. Seventy percent of the continent’s population is the youth. Should they be involved in the preservation, maintenance and continuance of traditional wisdom, as well as innovation of practical modern resource utilization methods, then Afrika will no longer stand inadequate in the eyes of world opinion. It will in fact be once again at the vanguard of the world’s moral and material progress. This is what we aspire to.

Our objective thus, is to involve the youth in agriculture, the natural prerequisite towards real and tangible development. Out of this involvement, the youth population will be directly engaged in providing and uplifting the basic necessities of food, clothing and shelter. It will lessen their susceptibility to misuse and exploitation by politicians, churches, vampire industries and other devouring forces.

We are working to ensure that all, and especially the youth, grow to value, recognize and respect our diversity of traditional knowledge, food, language and culture, and the way we organize and express ourselves and at the same time rejecting technologies and practices that undercut our future food producing capacities, damage the environment, put our health at risk and create all forms of injustice.

This is to call on all discerning souls universally to step up and cooperate to contribute towards the path which will lead to a freer, cleaner and ultimately sustainable new world. It is a sight to behold.