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- what is your vision for the world?
- the world should be a fair place for all to live, without the fear of a few minority dominating the vast majority of the resources which are laboured for my the 'helpless' majority termed as poor, resistant to 'change' , and all sorts . the world should be a place where all and sundry live with equal rigths to resources that will make life easy and not neccesarily destroy our collective patrimony. A world where people can provide alternative systems of development,right/ appropiate governance, social cultural values tought of by and facilitated by the people to make life comfortable for the vast majority of people and not being wraped up in "civilizations' that more imprisons the livelihood and the dignity of the people.men not just a few should be able to collectively see the world as a society for all and not just a potential businness empire to maximize profit at the expense of the livelihood of the majority , where sustainable social orders are preached and sustainned to ensure a happy world for all .Not a world in which so called 'success' are celebrated at the expense of human existencelivelihood.In short a world BY the people, TO the people and FOR the PEOPLE and not just the FEW who holds tenaciously the worlds resources without thinking about what happens to the next person beside them.
- About Me:
- currently a student studying agriculture, committed to making the world a better place in an hilistic approach ,building essentiall a'CHANGE' PARADIGM FOCUSfrom what has been to what should really be .a leader of the youth platform of the a farmer/peoples movement in the quest for a sustainable change.
- What are the creative skills that you feel you have or would like to develop.
- speaking, writing, acting, singing.
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I am sorry not to have responded more quickly. I only just found the message to say I had a new message! Things got very busy and I must have missed it.
Congratulations on finishing your exams. I hope they go well. I know that the conditions of studying are difficult nowadays.
E ku ise o also for the young people's harvest and all that you are learning in the praxis between your academic knowledge and the hard realities that challenge the small farmer every day.
At the Brighton end of World Family we are discovering more and more people who have a similar understanding of the vital importance of the small farmer and the knowledge acquired under difficult circumstances and over many generations. The same was true at the Farmers' Forum in Rome.
The small farmers' perspective and relation to the land are vital for the survival of the planet as well as for the survival and thriving of the people of the south. This is both obvious and mostly unrecognized by government and media in the north and therefore by most people who have not specifically thought about these things and had access to alternative perspectives. That is part of our struggle at this end and it is good to know that we are not alone.
Another thing we are coming to realize here is that the north has plenty of food but much of it is very poor quality and contaminated often with additives which make poor food taste better and be addictive (like Mac Donald). We have no food sovereignty here even though there is plenty of food and only a small minority go hungry. The vast majority of us have neither space to grow food nor the necessary knowledge, even on a home garden scale.
All blessings and best wishes,
Jocelyn
That is a beautiful message and I am heartened by the love from other youth. Good luck with your studies. I look forward to hearing from you again when your exams are complete.
Best wishes,
Jocelyn
yours in the family,
Olamide Akintaro.
Good to read your vision for the world. Welcome to WorldFamily. A long time back I had the good fortune to work in Nigeria and other parts of Africa and saw with my own eyes the courage and wisdom of small holder farmers and their willingness to develop new ideas and technologies to improve life and protect the land. I also know a little of the huge challenge that everyday survival can pose. I am happy to hear your respect and thoughtfulness for the people and also to know you have a great range of skills.
Some day I hope to hear you sing and see you act.
Jocelyn
Whereabout do you live? I am sure you will be a great help to us as an agriculture student as you will know a lot more than some of us about sustainability.
with love
Nadia :)
I do not work (for money) and at 61 in our ageist society I will probably never "work" again, but I have worked in my tiny part of the world to raise awareness for over 40 years, at first naively, then with knowledge, understanding, and more recently I have been trying to learn a more mature kind of compassion.
I must explain that I am for a UK citizen, relatively poor financially, but because of health issues I live in social housing and on social benefits. I am not some worthless scrounger, I am a warrior of the future who has re-skilled so many times the list of my different kinds of work would be very long indeed. However, because I have a guaranteed roof over my head and a small allowance for the necessities of living in this society I do not care. Material things are nothing to me. To die with a clean soul and human (not financial) work accomplished will be enough for me. I have overcome the greatest diseases of the lands live in, including depression and self-delusion, the former only recently,and I can help others to do so.
We in "The North" suffer mostly from what a mentor of mine called "The communal deception theatre" of life and I am aware that those who work close to the land are closer to reality. My own origins carry some of that awareness (both my parents come from Cypriot families who worked the land and lived from the land). It has always followed me like a quiet companion, and now as I begin to age I have the maturity to devote my (10-30) remaining years to spreading that awareness.
What I need more than anything is stark information, statistics, material for the seminars I am planning, and to offer support to those less certain, and to those living in what Seinde called "a haze of one world and peace" and "cocaine-land" -. those living in a self-deception, a dreamland, to open their eyes.
Seinde's story will be the spine of my work, and my work on radio, in writing, poetry, music and the support of musicians through my work in Healthy Concerts, my daily refusal to be a sheep, and other things to come has all received a boost by his visit.
Louis Loizou.
Best wishes in your work. We are here to work with you.
Regards,
Louis Loizou.