Slow Dance

This is a poem written by a teenager with cancer.She wants to see how many people get her poem.  It is quite the poem Please pass it on.

This poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a New York Hospital .
It was sent by a medical doctor -
Make sure to read what is in the closing statement AFTER THE POEM.

“SLOW DANCE”

Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.

Time is short.
The music won’t last.
Do you run through each day
On the fly?

When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed

With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You’d better slow down
Don’t dance so fast.

Time is short.
The music won’t last.
Ever told your child,
We’ll do it tomorrow?

And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die

Cause you never had time
To call and say,’Hi’
You’d better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.

Time is short.
The music won’t last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.

When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift….
Thrown away.
Life is not a race.

Do take it slower and hear the music
Before the song is over.

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You may help here by making an E-mail copy and sending it to as many of your friends that may also care !

FORWARDED  E-MAILS ARE TRACKED TO OBTAIN THE TOTAL COUNT.
Dear All:
PLEASE pass this mail on to everyone you know -
even to those you don’t know! It is the request of a special girl who will soon
leave this world due to cancer.

This young girl has 6 months left to live, and as her dying wish,
she wanted to send a letter telling everyone to live their life to
the fullest, since she never will.

She’ll never make it to prom, graduate from high school, or get married and have a
family of her own.

By you sending this to as many people as
possible, you can give her and her family a
little hope, because with every name
that this is sent to, The American Cancer Society
will donate 3 cents per name
to her treatment and recovery plan.
One guy sent this to 500 people! So I know
that we can at least send it to 5 or 6.
It’s not even your money, just your time!

PLEASE PASS ON AS A LAST REQUEST.
Dr.
Dennis Shields, Professor
Department of Developmental and
Molecular Biology
1300 Morris Park Avenue
Bronx , New York
10461

For once my friends, the future looks just a little brighter for the starving Children and Families in Kenya.

It is with much pleasure that I have some good news from Jared Okama Ondieki of  CEPACET  in Kenya who reports , Kenya Looking Ahead with the recent rains and the great possibilities of planting lifesaving crops.  Jared has asked me to thank you all for your prayers and support as with out that so many more shall perish , and if only you could see the faces of those you helped save during the recent famine.  I am only a supporter of Jared’s and CEPACET’s great work and therefore will pass you on now to Jared for his message to you all  as it was delivered to me.

Some of the dedicated people

Jared Akama Ondieki sent a message to the members of CENTER FOR PARTNERSHIP AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TRUST (CEPACET).

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Subject: Dear Members.

Dear Members,

I hope and trust that you are all having a great Week.

I hope that you are blessed and that you are all carrying the Vision and dreams for a better world high as never before.

Members,I just wanted to update you all on the situation back here in Kenya,I must say that we are  now experiencing some rain in most parts of the country at last! this means a lot because since January this group has dedicated it’s work in addressing the hunger which is being experienced in Our Nation and so to speak I see hope since most farmers have now embarked on planting and that means our people will eventually have food on the table,once Our country will have some harvest it will mean food prices will go down and significantly no one will die of hunger.

I therefore congratulate you all for your solidarity,support and encouragement,I know many of you believe in the dream of a better world and hence your spirit of giving towards this cause has been encouraging,More so I want to thank you for having not left the group simply because we asked you to give towards saving a life.Soon we shall have a reason to smile for we will have helped someone to see the next harvest season and hence there will be plenty for all on the table.

I also want to thank those members here who have come up with ideas to enhance our fund raising,thanks Sajjid Manuel and it’s my hope that you will soon share your thought with all members here.

From the bottom of my heart I say thank you.

Therefore Note that End of June will be the end of our save a life campaign and we shall move on to focus on other issues aimed at empowering  our people.

I am therefore urging all of you to donate towards Our 1/June activity.
Note that 1/June is our Independence day here in Kenya and as a group we would like to dedicate the day in taking supplies e.g food to slums and Orphanage in Nairobi depending on how much we shall have in our Kitty.

I am therefore urging members to extend their hand of Kindness and touch a life,remember this is the link to donate:

The official donation LINK

I look forward to your support.

God bless you.

Kind regards,

Jared Akama
For CEPACET.
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To reply to this message, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?inbox/readmessage.php&t=86136494700&mid=85dd8cG234b783eG1c2a71eG0

Beneficeries of Your Support-say Thank You.

Well I personally want to thank all those who have helped or supported Jared & CEPACET as they endeavor to save and make a difference in the lives of so many unfortunate and orphaned children. Also please feel free to  contact Jared or CEPACET with any questions or idea’s you may have,  you can  also join the Facebook Group at the link above or  give a donation at the official donation link ,  also above.  Never ever feel you can not help, as some times just an idea  could keep  Kenya Looking Ahead.

Thank you all

Allen Sentance
Fisherman

We  want  to introduce you  to-day  to one of Jared Ondieki’s  FaceBook  groups he has on there and feel  free to join us all there, where we further work together for the good of the underprivilaged & starving Children.

Here is a typical message that Jared sends to the  group  Stiching  The  World  Together , and each week he works relentlessly to not only help his countrymen  but to also bring encouragement and pride to those committed to helping his causes. We will also feature some more photo’s taken by Jared on the children’s day out at  Easter.

Jared Akama Ondieki sent a message to the members of Stitching The World Together.

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Subject: Dear Member

Dear Member,

It’s indeed an honor to have new members join with us.
From the Bottom of my heart we welcome you to this group.with hope that our numbers now at over 750 we are able to engineer  a  change aimed at restoring what a true life is.It’s beyond doubt that we have been created for a purpose and we must all use our skills and talents to ensure we leave the world a better place than we found it,then the coming generation will have a reason to build those several monuments in honor of our responsible characters.A powerful heritage of Unity,Interdependence,Prosperity and Peace is what we desire to hand over to the next generation.

Having said this,Our numbers now is our power and if used well,all what this group stands for shall be achieved.And it all depends how we utilize this.I remember sometime back,there is this body builder who visited a village,and when the villagers  saw him,they were so amazed and baffled.
Later,the chief called in the gentleman in his office with an intention of knowing more about Him,Indeed his body was amazing!

After,a long chat.The chief convinced him to show the villagers on what he used his body for.Willing and Enthusiastic he looked forward to show the villagers his mighty.So the following day,the Villagers were mobilized to order  in a gathering and when everything was set,the body Builder got into action.
Half Necked,he begun to muscle his body and indeed the Villagers were astonished by the biceps and all about the body of this great gentleman.

Within 10 minutes he was done and indeed what a body he had.So,the chief expecting more,asked him what else he did with his body for and the body builder answered,” That is all” !!!….. ” What a waste”!! the chief replied!.Annoyed and disappointed,the chief dispersed the people,who left disappointed as well.

Indeed,lets utilize our mass well! Lets believe that we can change things with our numbers we can make our dreams come true by combining out talents and skills well,Our talents ,Knowledge and skills can not be of help to us if not used well or shared out.

Have a great day!
Will you?

Jared Akama Ondieki
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To reply to this message, follow the link below  and Please Join The Group with us.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=55537104560

A Day Out For The Children Thanks To Your Donations & Jared

I love to help these children find a life and help them  Stitch their World  Together again as they are orphans and rely on us all for their security, education and well being as they re-adjust to no family and loved ones.

We also intend to raise further funds to set  Jared and the children up with a computer and the internet for further  projects and learning, should you know of any one or you may like to yourself assist us  with the funds to set them up properly. Then they too can experience some of the basics that we take for granted and never think twice  about in our safe and secure world.

Distributing Food and Orange Juice To Children in The Slums

Our main objective is to do our utmost to assist these underpriviliged and orphaned children survive their predicament and go on to become proud and upstanding citizens.  And the more people who join us  by becoming  a Member of  Stitching  The  World  Together the more we can do as a combined and powerful force. Very similar to the story Jared told us of the body builder, thank you all once again for your interest and support of  Consider The Children.

United We Are Stitching The World Together

Allen  Sentance
Fisherman

Michelle James – Deramo  Who spent time with these children on a recent trip to Kenya has supplied us with many photo’s of the children at the orphanage. This is one we share to-day.

I am always proud to write about these beautiful children, and today is no different . I have had  4  children of my own and we lost a son  Athol  at  21 yrs, we also have 10 grandchildren so I know what it is like to love a child and  lose a child.

The children  in this photo are an example of some of the starving and orphaned children that have been saved from certain death and their future is just a little brighter now, thanks to the efforts of CEPACET and Jared  Akama Ondieki with  their endless efforts to save as many as possible and  co-ordinate food programs and fund raising.

We are all aware of the current downturn in the worlds  financial situation, so I see this as very sad times for the  already starving children.  They are perishing by hundreds each and every day now, so how bad is it going to get in the near future as the economy faces even tighter times .  How sad also to know that there is more than enough food  in the world to feed the whole worlds population  and that is  fact, not  fiction.

Too much greed and corruption with certain governments around the world, prevent relief from being delivered to where it is needed, so these individuals are totally reliant on donations and assistance from you the general public, we all know this  is  wrong  yet  who  can  standby and watch a child squirming in the dust, to weak to stand and dying.  The food will prevent them from dying, they are in many cases orphans with no family  or next of kin to give them the main ingredient of life after nourishment,  and my friends all humans require this……LOVE ….. I have seen first hand and experienced   The  Power of  Love  for Children.

The children above in the photo are glowing, you will find that it is the love and  affection they are getting at the orphanage that does this  ,  not  the  food as it is only the fuel for the body.  My mission from here on since becoming aware of the problems the underprivilaged and starving children face , is to make a difference and I could use some help from  whoever  feels they can  assist me and the others as we virtually are facing an uphill battle.

We move onto a lighter note now as I would like to report on behalf of Jared that the  food and easter goodies have all been distributed among the orphans and some of the families in the street slum area’s.  So to those who donated for this we thank you all so very much, as  none of the food you donated towards was wasted and it has helped so many.
After this  photo I want to hand you over to  Barbara  Horst with her report as she  does a great job for Jared.

Here is another photo of the children , this time with Michelle who the children grew to love.

Barbara’s  Report

PART 1

Gifts  Of  Honor-  we run a group for  Jared and the children on Facebook which you can join or  like most do, they donate what they can afford in honor of some one they love or admire, and we then aknowlege them and the honor.

Thank you for that report Barbara, and she will have two more parts to that over the next couple of publications,  so keep an eye out for that.

To all our followers and readers I hope you spent some quality time with loved ones and family over easter, and that you never ate too much chocolate.  I was fortunate enough to have some of my grandchildren, visit and share chocolate eggs with  Poppy & Nanny,  that is when I also got  to again witness  The  Power of  Love for  Children .
I will bid  you all farewell for now and ask that you  Consider The Children and the love they need.

Allen  Sentance
Fisherman

http://www.allensentance.blogspot.com