The Fragility of Humanity

Like most people, as I sit and watch the coverage of how COVID-19 is ravaging most countries of the world and killing hundreds of thousands, especially those my own age, life becomes a focus, or perhaps I should say, death enters the picture as a correlative to life. One aspect of human reaction that causes […]

Love and care are not enough

“The world, perhaps as never before is in need of spiritual rejuvenation and a foundation for living based on the human values of caring and sharing.

Community – in a survival economy

  (A of  view of a typical marketplace in an economy where 97% of businesses are micro. This one a fish market at one landing site for fish in The Gambia people sell fish and variety of other products.) I have argued for many years that what has been touted as ‘Globalization’ was indeed centralization. People […]

Tears – years on

(A picture of tragedy and hope. The little boy’s dad died before he was born, and his mom died 3 days after his birth. He is now being cared for by his grandmother who came to me because someone told her I would help.) I shed a tear today, in fact, I cried a lot […]

As foundations collapse

(Picture: My neighbours dressed for their own special day) As we near this Christmas season, when Christians celebrate the birth of Christ, we find a celebration that has morphed into a celebration of consumerism unhinged. It is the pinnacle of sales and profits for those engaged in the capitalist world of retail, the time when […]

“…..in celebration of MaSireh’s life”

I wish to extend my sincere thanks on behalf of MaSireh’s family to all those who contributed to MaSireh’s journey and all those who sent kind and thoughtful words of support and compassion at her passing. They will be all sent to the family, so that they know that MaSireh had a lot of support […]

A journey of faith

Through my flurry of newsletters in these past few weeks you’ve learned a little about the challenges faced by MaSireh Bojang, a young woman from Sanyang Village in The Gambia, West Africa. These messages have been focused and intense because of her great need for heart surgery and the very narrow window of time in […]

A journey to life

On the 20th of July a young African woman, Ma Sireh Bojang, accompanied by her cousin Lamin Bojang will leave her village in The Gambia for the first time to travel more than 6,000km to Kenya, for a meeting with destiny and heart surgery to save her life. 

Ma Sireh Bojang – Finding a Solution

This is a true story about the importance of persistence in solving a difficult problem. Persistence has gotten us close to a solution, but there is still more to do, and this is where the help of many people is required. The real work begins now. Just a short while before I left Gambia, for […]