http://nirvanacable.com Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:35:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From: Mr David Mugah Subject: todays update To: "Nirvana Cable" Date: Friday, December 18, 2009, 7:54 AM  We created a miracle. On the Barclays Bank draft program we were slotted for a 1 hour to do our presentation. While on the stage the mood was getting charged and soft. We saw the Barclays Bank ... http://nirvanacable.com/archives/73 Thursday, November 19, 2009 9:35 PM From: "Mr David Mugah" To: "Nirvana Cable" Receive our affectionate greetings and hugs, knowing that you are still on course. As a team we have been going through a major business repositioning, with business planning; marketing; follow ups; developing community profiles and mobilizing for advance course. Indeed, ... http://nirvanacable.com/archives/72 From: aristarchus munish Subject: Things are Getting Better To: "Nirvana Cable" Date: Saturday, August 29, 2009, 6:45 AM Hello, GCA's ATT [Global Community Africa, Alternative Thinking Training] is indeed a journey. Sometime back I saw you wearing a T-Shirt and on it was inscribed the words, "Not all who wander are lost." Looking back some ... http://nirvanacable.com/archives/66 Ghazi Training Friday, August 21, 2009 2:33 AM Hallo, Hope this mail finds you well. Yesterday we had a training in one of the farthest ends of Voi Constituency - Ghazi Location. One of the areas' characteristic is lack of network coverage! A remote area indeed. The training was again a reminder of what we ... http://nirvanacable.com/archives/65 The following is a transcript of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's TEDTalk: ---- Can I say how delighted I am to be away from the calm of Westminster and Whitehall? This is Kim, a nine-year-old Vietnam girl, her back ruined by napalm, and she awakened the conscience of the nation of America to ... http://nirvanacable.com/archives/64 Working in Kenya, I've gotten real about corruption. It's a patronage business model. When compared with the capitalist business model, patronage occurs as corruption. Kenya directly invests money in constituencies through a Community Development Fund (CDF). While giving workshops in Karachuonyo Constituency, I noticed that the majority of CDF projects were ... http://nirvanacable.com/archives/62 January 30, 2009 Dead Aid, By Dambisa Moyo Reviewed by Paul Collier in Independent Books Time to turn off the aid tap? Dambisa Moyo is to aid what Ayaan Hirsi Ali is to Islam. Here is an African woman, articulate, smart, glamorous, delivering a message of brazen political incorrectness: cut aid to Africa. Aid, ... http://nirvanacable.com/archives/56 For thirty years, and counting, I have been creating something most people say is impossible. I take heart from this quote: Good ideas are common - what’s uncommon are people who’ll work hard enough to bring them about.  -- Ashleigh Brilliant (via affremblequotes) http://nirvanacable.com/archives/61 Occasionally, one of Global Community Africa's team members, Aristarchus Munish, puts his thoughts into an email to me. I cherish these communications. *** Monday, January 26, 2009 11:45 AM Hello, Hope this mail finds you well. Hope your days have been really refreshing. Yesterday, on my way from church I met a friend of mine ... http://nirvanacable.com/archives/60 Escape Your Rat Race By Martha Beck O, The Oprah Magazine, January 2009 Feeling trapped by a job, relationship, or routine, but terrified of making a change? Martha Beck shows you how to feel your way to freedom. Sheila and I are conversing at a drug treatment center, where she's been remanded. Counselors are ... http://nirvanacable.com/archives/58