A monday with airtel #NiKuchagua

There was confusion in the morning…

Everybody I was calling sounded strange and unfamiliar. Personally I don't like the question "who's this ?" in a phone conversation. One of my very good friends whom I called in the morning was so courteous. This good friend(call her W) of mine is one of those people you never hear say hallo (of course due to the informality of how you relate) They start from 'sema fala'.

After a number of calls is when I decided to check it out. Of course I remember the mischief I'd done in the morning but I din't care that it had any effect, sort of escaping reality of what I'd done. I'd decided to try on some experiment you don't want to try with whatever number you use mainly. I chose a number on airtel.  As of any of you who'd dare this try *111#, then choose menu number 3 and choose the number of your choice. You will be in the same situation as I am.

Problem is I have had to go to the airtel customer care center on koinange street who haven't helped. I'm made to understand that airtel system is down and so I have to 'wait until the day the system is back'- this is according to the people who are said to care about customers. Meanwhile  here is the number I  chose. +254789114840 ugly as friend W says. I'm also made to understand that my other number does not exist at the moment.

This is what has meant that I stay off the network for the whole of today.
 I'm sorry for the inconveniences for all who are trying to reach me on mobile.

I Touched a child's heart

Today the  14th of may 2011 is by coincidence the same day  as it was last year 14th of may. By coincidence I wore the same t-shirt on both days and on more coincidence was on the same course- touching a child's heart and by extension; charity, something I enjoy as much as I do enjoy being on the internet.

catch up with me on #Cnn tomorrow :)

On 14th of may last year, I participated in the matter heart-run a walk that saves many lives of children in need of heart operations. For me it was a walk leave for the 'run' in the 'heart-run'. I literally walked all the way. Anyway, bottom-line is the cause was and would still have been met to the same effect.

On this different Saturday morning (2011), I wake up in Kitui. I'm here to help come up with a dorm for girls at mutini secondary school. This school is quite interior and majorly 'marginalized'. At a glance, you are able to learn that this school lacks facilities that make a secondary school. To start, there's no dh(dining hall) so they will feed under trees. Their labs are also pathetic, dorms insufficient and loos worst of them all. In fact they should we tell truth, they need another whole new school. With these lacking facilities they are able to make a B+. I respect the effort.

Back to our story, today we were putting the sheets on the roof as to do the final works of the project. We've been here for a week now and the kind of hospitality we get on each single day of our stay there is heavenly. Our visitor-hood never seems to grow old. We are honored to be introduced in front of local leaders, board of governors of the school, parents, literally the whole village knows we're here on a friendly mission. And so with this welcomeness we strive our best to have them some better place to sleep in by the end of this month. When it is complete, we shall have housed 100 girls in a new dorm. Shall we not have touched a child's heart?

 some photos at kitui

carrying the sheets in.

on the job!

men at work

work men on the pick-up

EasymoveKE ~We'll be moved soon

Easymove is what I did for my IS project last semester and I'm of the belief that it could be the next hit in the movements scene in Kenya.

 Let's first of all do facts as I tell you on what it's about. The first thing I must agree to is that we have few moving companies in Kenya that have an online presence, moreso one that uses it's online presence to interact with a huge chunk of people.  Moving companies I know of include cube movers, prestige movers, and others in the bulky moving world  and one world, G4S, Dhl, in the courrier world and all the others you know of.

However in my findings, 'open-source' movement carries the day with individuals who have lorries, pick-ups and other forms of transportation such as trailers, hand-carts(mkokoteni) who indeed collectively make more movements than any of these organizations that offer cargo movement services.

So my idea is to have an online platform where we have all these individual or small companies register as 'movers' and people in need of these services(I called them 'movees' in my system) could log on and possibly use this platform to get this information and thus easier information outreach over internet.

Another fact I'd take some measure of courage to confess is that my public skills are awfully wanting. Murphy's law proved true as I was presenting/defending this project on Thursday. They say what can go wrong will go wrong. Some functionalities of my proj flopped working during presenting just for some code I'd changed on the very morning. All's not lost anyway as I'm working on it for the next few months to have it launched online soon even before completion. I just created an a/c on twitter the handly is @easymoveKE, you could follow in support of the cause.

That's the basis of my idea,  will keep sharing  more of my experiences in development as time goes by

 Thanks