Always in Support, Support Vision In Uganda...

Here is the man, the zaadster and friend for all, born a warrior but in a peaceful mood.

I'm very happy to bring to your notice that the Vision Force Uganda (VFU) I indicated on my profile is a youth program still in infant stages. We want to register it as an NGO that will help the youths-ourselves inclusive. We for starters decided to start young by opening up an internet cafe called Vision Cafe-Simply full of Vision.

Origin

I have a friend (Clovis-I hope you know or have heard about him) with whom I was at University up to October 2006. He has a friend from the States called Michael Skye who sent him educative, inspiring and enlightening programs that I was able to access. They concerned Vision, Entrepreneurship and Leadership. He even sent some inspirational books we had never accessed such as The Power of Now, Man's Search for Meaning, Atlas Shrugged, think and Grow Rich, Rich Dad Poor Dad, etc for which we took our time and read thorouthly. That was really the beginning to our positive thinking that we carry with us wherever we are.

Since I was finishing University, and jobs in Uganda were (are) not that easy to get due to the high levels of unemployment, low technological development and corruption, we decided to combine efforts and brains in patnership.

Our biggest concerns were - in Uganda (just like in most parts of Africa): 

-Unemployment

-Poor leadership, corruption, nepotism, sectarianism etc

-Poverty

-Human Rights in general and youths marginalisation etc,

and we knew that if we tied ourselves to looking for jobs here and there, yet with no money at all, we would be demoralised. Michael sent some money ($400) to Clovis which we used together to start a Life after School with a desire to change our lives and lives of other youths in Uganda and probably in Africa. So Michael Sent us $1340 and advised us to start something that could act as the beginning of change in our lives and we started an internet cafe called Vision Cafe with the following reasons (among others):

- High costs of internet access in Uganda: So it was in our minds that once more Ugandan youths got access to cheap internet, they could probably get online friends who would help them out in times of need and possibly that would mark the beginning of change in their lives.

- Low technology development: With Vision Cafe, we were sure to keep expanding and hopefully we would network Uganda in the long run as we spread the word of Vision among our fellow youths.

- The internet cafe would act as a centre for our lectures, conferences, seminars and meetings with inspirational leaders and businessmen in Uganda that would ease our work of spreading VISION and how someone would achieve success regardless of his/her background. 
But with God nothing is impossible. That's why we usually tell our friends that with God, desire, faith, patience, there should be no such a word as IMPOSSIBLE (not even in the dictionaries).

So I can tell you that the beginning of my life was Clovis not because he was financially upright (as he was also a student) but just because he had a friend who helped us to take a stand, have a vision and spread the Word at the same time. We are now doing our best to achieve the best and helping the rest of the youths achieve the best.

Since internet is quite expensive to start, we were able to use the latter dollars to buy 2 computers, rent a room and put furniture. So we needed more computers, and then internet attainment and installation. .

Let's be together as one and let's get linked up at all times on Zaadz that has empowered us with vision and has inspired us to help ourselves and other youths.

God bless you.

NAMASTE.

Peace and Love

saidi