Having delivered and attended workshops in different cities, I have worked with great minds who are progressive, and others who disregard their potential. Everyone I’ve worked with harboured a great mind. Indiscriminately, we all harbour a great mind. Some reach a point whereby they begin to explore its capabilities, while others are limited either by resources or various other constraints.

In an ideal society, we would all have equal resources and hence equal chances to grow. However, with the existential inequalities, it is essential to help cater for these distinct inequalities and slowly work towards a more balanced world.

Yes, it is easier said than done. But you’ve got to start somewhere. Sometimes the fact that it is difficult to alleviate issues works as a stumbling block; we’ve got to look past it, and try work on small ground issues and slowly tackle larger ones.

Reflecting on the quote above, I have found it to be very accurate on many levels. Attaining knowledge in all respects increases wisdom. As you become wiser, your command and abilities become more distinct. Sometimes you begin to explore new talents, and focus on new potentials that you hadn’t witnessed before. Knowledge doesn’t have to be specific to secular; all knowledge can be useful knowledge.

In society, secular knowledge is regarded as a dominating asset. It often determines employment, entrepreneurial skills and various other roles.

For this reason, I personally feel education to be a pivotal means for an individual to succeed. However, a good education system requires resources to enable steady upward growth. While resources are available online and in libraries in the UK, some developing countries across the globe lack resources. This often constrains their growth and chances of improvement.

As a newly formed charity, Mount Elimu aims to address this issue in developing countries. If we’ve got resources to nurture our talent, so should everyone else. Our long term aims are to promote resource allocation in East Africa (to start off with), by delivering workshops on global poverty, whereby we hope to educate people on a local level, in order to educate people on a global level.

With manageable strategies to start off with, we hope to grow and help empower as many individuals as possible.

While this is our story, we believe we should help improve their story.

(Please get in contact with me if you’d like to help in any way.)

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It would be very difficult to find someone who thought this world is perfect. If you are this person then don’t bother reading on.

One reaction to our imperfect world is charity and my oh my don’t we have enough of them! This has happened because we identify a problem in society, in a community or even a nation and usually a charity is started which can be defined as a movement or an effort to try and solve this problem. The next requirement in any movement is money and from this we see charity boxes scattered around be it Cancer Research (all twenty of them) at the supermarket or Children in Need at McDonalds. Many of these are successful and recently we saw the success of Children in Need despite the recession. However why is it called success? Just because they raised money doesn’t mean all the children that are in need are fulfilled. In addition we release our pennies into these boxes and gain a sense of contribution towards a good cause. Great! Charities got what they need and people who do take the effort to take their wallet out of their back pocket feel good about themselves.

But then what? What’s next? Who knows. Im sure readers of this have donated to charity but how many of us have followed this up. We assume our money is immediately used to buy food or the hungry or shelter for the homeless. Ever received a receipt for this? A photo? Now in no way am I discrediting charities but rather accusing charity givers as selfish and violent! The gentleman who started the international krishna consciousness society defined violence as an action we do for our own benefit (OWTTE). This is applied here because we give money to charities to feel good about ourselves – but we just don’t realise it. Whilst I think this definition is completely ridiculous it makes sense in this situation. My ideal world would have one charity who allocates money to other charities who are all credible and return with proof that this money is doing positive work. Some could say this exists and is called a government and so it should be. Regardless of your wage, I think 1% of it should go to charity and Africa would be out of debt at this point.

In no way am I saying to stop giving money but rather give your time which is way more valuable and there are more charities out there who would prefer your time then money or if you are giving money then ask for proof as to where it went, then show others what 1% of their wage can do and progress will begin and form this we will reach a world where charities do not need to exist.

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