Ife Piankhi Hospital Fund

On the morning of Friday 28th December 2018,  Ife Piankhi was admitted to hospital in Uganda after a suspected stroke and bleeding on the brain. This is a very serious situation and condition. Hospital services in Uganda are NOT free so Ife and her family will need assistance with meeting those fees to make sure …

Imagine This

Picture this…………..humanity lives in small communities of people who have enough land to feed the whole group. They make their own clothes and shoes. They have a borehole but no electricity. They use use solar energy to cook with, heat their water and light their homes. They allow no plastic into the community. They meditate …

How to be ethical

    Since the beginning of the year I’ve been encountering issues of ethics. We talk a lot in Uganda about corruption and how it stops us from developing at a reasonable rate. But my question is what happened to the African Ethic so often spoken about by historians? When I first started reading African …

Resilience

  So now we begin again, I’m not sorry to see the back of 2014, its been a trying year for many not just me. Resilience is the ability to overcome challenges, to fall, down but get back up again, to keep moving and learning from our mistakes. I’ve touched and been touched by countless …

The empty purse

  This week I posted on my FB page that my purse was empty and this was a blessing because it forced me to look at how I am in the world without money. To be honest it wasn’t pretty. I was visited by anxiety, doubt, frustration and a lot of fear. When I reflect …

Learning to release

 I got issues, I wont deny. Been crying alot lately and I don’t know why (but now I do, its a supermoon tonight). Just when I think I have overcome the pain, I find the emotion has not gone, its just moved deeper into my body. So last night I meditated on release. Repeating the …

Challenges with Love

 Its funny how life is sometimes. When i changed my name to Ife (meaning Love in Yoruba) i didn’t understand how profoundly it would impact on my life. In Africa a name is supposed to mean something to the holder: a tendency or aspiration that the person is meant to live up to. I’m discovering …