I DONT GIVE BIRTH TO PUPPIES

I DONT GIVE BIRTH TO PUPPIES
Once upon a time, a dog approached an elephant to get into a child bearing competition. In 3 months the dog gave birth to 6 puppies. In the next 3 months the dog gave birth to yet another set of puppies. The elephant finally gave birth after 20 months by which time the dog had given birth to over 30 puppies and was mocking the elephant into believing that it had won the competition. The elephant had a few words for the dog when the baby elephant came out after 20 months. "I can see you had fooled yourself into believing that you had won the competition. I think you can appreciate now that:
1. I don't give birth to puppies
2. When I do give birth, the calf will be ready to face the world on its own
3. The combined weight of your 36 puppies is less than a fifth of my calf's weight
4. The moment my calf steps into this earth it makes an immediate great impact as if no dog was ever born"
Don't let any early leaders in this life chide you into believing that you are a failure, beaten flat out and you have already lost the battle of success. I want you to think like an elephant. Don't envy cheap quick success. For as long as you are in the right place, your chance is coming and by the signs of time it wont be long. You are not that small to give birth to puppies.

The lady Hillary Rodham Clinton

The lady Hillary Rodham Clinton - A graduate of Wellesley College and Yale Law School, Hillary Clinton served on the staff of the House Judiciary Committee considering the impeachment of Richard Nixon. After moving to Arkansas, she ran a legal aid clinic for the poor and was appointed by President Carter to the board of the United States Legal Services Corporation. She led a task force to improve education in Arkansas and served on national boards for the Children's Defense Fund, the Child Care Action Campaign, and the Children's Television Workshop. Continuing her legal career as a partner in a law firm, she led the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession. She was elected to the U.S. Senate from New York in 2000 and re-elected in 2006. She served on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee; the Environment and Public Works Committee; the Special Committee on Aging; and the Senate Armed Services Committee. She also chaired the Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee, responsible for communicating with the public about key issues before Congress. The wife of former President Bill Clinton, she is the only First Lady of the United States ever elected to public office. Clinton was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in 2008, losing to Senator Barack Obama. President Obama appointed Clinton to serve as U.S. Secretary of State, a position she held from 2009 - 2013. In April 2015, she announced her candidacy for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.

REPRESENTATION OF YOUNG WOMEN AGED 20-35 YEARS

REPRESENTATION OF YOUNG WOMEN AGED 20-35 YEARS

I have involved in personal development projects aimed at representing young women and teenage mothers in legislative and civic processes. My interest in submitting this request create awareness of existing representation gap for Kenyan women aged 20-25-35 and teenage mothers who do not 'fit as youths' for being mothers and who are looked down by older women.

These group has been sideline and are not involved in entrepreneurship or empowerment programs despite the many challenges hat they face including;

1.    Unemployment

2.    Marital Abuse

3.    Domestic Violence

4.    Sexual Violence RAPE;  date rapes, 'sex for grades', ‘sex for jobs’

The possible interventions for this group include

1.    Civic Education

2.    Economic Empowerment

3.    Capacity Building Trainings

4.    Counselling

5.    Family Planning

6.    Creation of specific employment offportunities

7.    Representation of these group

I look forward to participation in the stakeholders’ forum.

Jacqueline Njambi Kamau

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