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You know I found myself now doing a real business, and I found that I cannot do it allone.
So I hired young people.
that were also jobles.
We started saving, saving and through that...
I managed to get a truck, a second hand truck...
to start a business.
First of all you have to mobilise people, especially young people...
Because they are always there, looking for where they can be able to get something.
So that is the biggest challenge.
It is where you have to start.
There...
no matter how much you have...
You must have them.
You know, like ACREF...
is doing...
community service through art.
And that makes us unique in this area.
I am using the talent that I have...
to work...
to be a social worker in the community.
But I never loose focus...
or I never forget that I am an artist.
We have different departments.
We a school department, we have AFEMA department.
And we have also theatre department.
We found that there is a lot of kids who are very bright...
But they don't have that opportunity to go to...
good schools, let me say good schools.
Because those schools are very expensive.
So, right here...
there is an office, a small office...
for our school project.
And, on the other side...
there is a small office for our, also a project called, AFEMA.
And right there, back, there is a gym...
for the fysiotherapy department.
The theatre was build, for reason of...
entertaining and at the same time educating...
through song, through dance, you know.
And also the theatre, is part of our income.
So the success only comes from...
within you, you know.
The big thing that is bringing down a lot of groups in Kenya...
is the money issue.
You know, when the group or the organisation starts receiving a lot of funds...
if the group is not disciplined...
and if the members are not honest by themselves...
then the group will come down.
So I believe that ACREF...
has been succesful because of the discipline of the members...
and the focus of the group.
So what we have here...
is MAZAO agrobusiness and educational farm.
This is a business.
And it is also an educational centre.
The farm where our member small scale farmers come...
get their ideas...
see what is happening...
and then they implement it in their own way.
In their own place.
One thing that was very evident in the said place, was the fact that...
most of the initiatives...
based in slums, where coming from outside.
So I thought it was wise to have an initiative from within.
That makes young people own the process of their own development.
Thousands of young people move from the villages, from the farms...
to the city centres, in search for a job...
only to end up in the slum.
There profession, if I my call, was to look for a job.
You wake up in the morning, you look for a job, you come back home.
Wake up in the morning, you look for a job, you come back home.
But look at this person in the context of the farm.
Taking advantage of the resource that is there.
This person has the ability and the potential to become...
an employer himself.
And than I also discussed the concept of social entrepreneurship.
Make profit and at the same time develop the community.
Develop people around.
I said YEAH!.