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HALALA NEW JERSEY CHAPTER
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THANKS GIVING 2010 NEW JERSEY 27TH NOVEMBER
HALALA NEW JERSEY CHAPTER MONTHLY MEETING SCHEDULED DATE: SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 4TH 2010 VENUE: 24 NORTH MOUNT OLIVE ROAD BUDD LAKE, NEW JERSEY 07828 TIME: 4PM - 6PM HOST: HENRY
NABUTETE & FAMILY
YES WE CAN SAYS THE CHAIRMAN OF HALALA
NEW JERSEY CHAPTER MR. HENRY NABUTETE As the chairman of Halala chapter in New Jersey and a Patron of Halala USA/ I feel it is important
to affirm to you that Halala leaders in both US and state chapters believe in themselves and the mission they have undertaken
in bringing a mobile medical unit to Western Kenya.Some of
your worries are how to raise this large amount of money in five years as promised. True, this could be discouraging but all
we need to do is to become creative thinkers. And our thinking should not go beyond our godly given skills and ideas. Let
us look at ourselves and examine all the skills and ideas we can put in use (both godly, given and those acquired through
out our life experience) Let’s put all these ideas together and see which one we can use to raise the funds we need.Without thinking too hard, I can give you examples of how I will contribute to
the mobile medical unit using only one of many skills, my sweat and a little bit of your help. I plan to come out of retirement
and run in NY city. Marathon, and two other major marathons in United States. The funds that will be raised will go to the
mobile medical unit and the other will go towards 50 wells in buluhya land. Also, I plan to walk from the north most city
of New Jersey to the south most city of New Jersey. I plan to take my son Sammy and Tony Maenar of CHINI YA MTI- I mentioned Tony and my son because they
have a background of tolerance and endurance prepared to take on such task. With proper organization those two events can bring us much-needed funds without scratching our brains
but using our skills. If we can raise just a quarter of the total package, then we can turn to various organizations and institutions
and see what they can do for us. Remembers we are loaded with bright and willing Kenyans in health, legal and Education institutions
that are just waiting to hear how they can help us through their field of work. We have legitimate organizations in this country
who would like to see what we have done before they can think of helping us with funds or materials that we can use. So, my
fellow members, before you can let those people who have not tried anything that we are doing discourage you, or before you
allow those non-members who are jealous of Halala’s mission, divide us, with the intention of destroying us. Please,
look at Halala’s objectives again then go back to the time when you decided that Halala was the right organization to
join. I will not ask you to make up your mind again, because your first one was the best one you made. All I will ask you
to do is to come up with as many ideas as you can that we could use to raise money towards the mobile medical unit. Then take
the best two and send to Halala US President. We plan to compile all the ideas we came up with to be utilized in raising funds
for the mobile unit.Also, I would like to caution those who are
attacking Halala and its leadership, that we are members of Halala, because we believe in its objectives. Therefore we don’t
want anybody to misuse the organization by creating issues that do not exist in the organization. We want to help ourselves
here in United States and those we left at home the best way we can without breaking the laws, on either side. The problems
people face at home are: jobs, food, health, water and Education. If there is anybody out there who is doing something in
the areas I have mentioned all I can say is [thank you] and continue
doing that. Or if anybody has a better way of doing it, share information with us with no strings attached better still, start
an organization that can do that without involving Halala.The idea
of helping ourselves here goes beyond, just helping each other incase of death and sickness. We would like to see that our
children don’t forget cultural deeds of their grandmothers and grandfathers. We want our children to be proud of their
mother country and understand that we are here for reasons that we cant do much about. And therefore to grow up knowing who
they are, and grow up to be who they want to be without doughting themselves or feeling inferior of where their parents or
grandparents came from. I want our children to understand and love everything about themselves including the food their parents
and their grandparents were raised on.Halala plans to help our children
by introducing cultural awareness classes, where they will learn Oluhya, Swahili, abaluhyia values including home economics.
Our spiritual leaders like Pastor Esipila and a line of certified teachers are going to help us accomplish these particular
objective.Halala is strong in the objectives they would like to
tangle with here and home. All I am asking for is people with ideas and time to spare when asked to reach out, and help with
funds to get things done.For now I will stop here, but I want our
members to know that, “ Home is where you make it” our future must be invested in our children here or home. Nobody
can do it by himself or herself. We can do it as a sincere group with objectives that have no strings attached. “
The Halala way” is one way we can do it.
NEW JERSEY LEADERS ISSUE A STATEMENT ON POLITICS
IN HALALA Halala NJ Chapter is in agreement with the statement issued by Halala USA President dissociating
the organization from individuals with political motives infiltrating the activities of the organization. Halala NJ remains
committed to the welfare objectives of helping ourselves in our communities in the Diaspora, and extending our focus to the
struggling communities in Western Kenya. We invite everyone with like minds to join, share and participate in our welfare
activities and projects. We particularly dissociate ourselves with political utterances made by some individuals at various
Halala Chapter events in NJ and wish to clarify that we are in no way represented by this kind of views. The leadership of
Halala NJ is not aware of the existence of Halala International, and cautions those misleading our members to refrain from
such careless pronouncements. Signed by the President of Halala New Jersey Chapter - Henry Nabutete VIRGINIA CHAPTER
MARYLAND CHAPTER
HALALA USA
Kenya Embassy in Washington DC
CHINI YA MTI
Email New Jersey Chapter
SERVING TRI- STATE AREA OF NEW JERSEY, NEW YORK AND CONNECTICUT
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