Namala Mkopi is a Pediatrician at Muhimbili National Hospital, who has mastered a face of reassurance as he caters for the most special of patients: children.

How did you get to be a Pediatrician?
I first pursued a Bachelors degree in Medicine and graduated in 2004 at Muhimbili University College. Then my passion to work with children drove me to study for a Master's of Medicine in Pediatrics and Child Health.

What are your expectations on a regular day?
I see out-patients, do ward rounds, supervise registrars and interns and teach undergraduate and postgraduate medical students. I also in collaboration with the university engage in research as well as consult with other medical bodies such as AMREF.

What do you like most about your job?
The gratification that comes with giving children a chance to experience life.

Do you experience any challenges?
Of course, like lack of diagnostic facilities. This is a challenge in most of our hospitals. Medical laboratories need to be well equipped for patients to receive timely prognosis and cure. We also do not have many specialists who have concentrated on any given medical field yet this is the way to improved and efficient medical care. Being a national hospital, the number of patients visiting Muhimbili can also be overwhelming.

Are you satisfied with your job?
Yes. It gives me great joy to be of service to my country.

Credit & Copyright: Q&A session with Namala Mkopi by Hellen Wanjiku/TheCitizen.

What is this principle?
10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.

What does this mean?
We really have no control over 10% of what happens to us. We cannot stop the car from breaking down. The plane will be late arriving, which throws our whole schedule off. A driver may cut us off in traffic. We have no control over this 10%. The other 90% is different. You determine the other 90%.

How?
By your reaction. You cannot control a red light. However, you can control your reaction. Do not let people fool you; YOU can control how you react.

If someone says something negative about you, do not be a sponge. Let the attack roll off like water on glass. You do not have to let the negative comment affect you! React properly and it will not ruin your day. A wrong reaction could result in losing a friend, being fired, getting stressed out etc.

The 90-10 principle is incredible. Very few know and apply this principle.
The result? Millions of people are suffering from undeserved stress, trials, problems and heartache.
Read an example tounderstand the "90/10 principle" here: http://papatoto.com/article/635921784649

MKUTANO WA NENO LA MUNGU NA MWALIMU CHRISTOPHER MWAKASEGE
KUTOKA TANZANIA  READING UK: 30 - 31 July na 01 August 2010 

Jumuiya ya wakristo katika Uingereza na Ulaya inawakaribisha katika mkutano wa neno la Mungu utakokuwa ukiendeshwa na mtumishi wa Mungu Mwalimu Christopher Mwakasege kutoka Tanzania .

Mwl. Mwakasege ni Mchumi na Mwalimu wa neno la Mungu ambaye mafundisho yake ni mapana na yanalenga katika maeneo yote ya maisha.

MATARAJIO
    * Wenye shida za kiroho, nafsi, mwili mnakaribishwa mpate majibu ya maswali yenu.
    * Mafundisho ya namna ya kujikomboa kiuchumi kwa mujibu wa neno la Mungu yatafundishwa
    * Nyimbo za Injili kutoka wanamziki mbalimbali

Huu utakuwa wakati wa baraka sana jitahidi usikose nafasi hii ya pekee na Mungu atakubariki.

Anwani ya Ukumbi: Rivermead Complex Leisure Centre, Richfield Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 8EQ.

Siku na muda wa mikutano: Ijumaa Julai 30 utaanza saa 8 mchana (2pm) hadi saa 2 jioni (8pm).
Jumamosi na Jumapili utaanza saa 4 asubuhi (10am) mpaka saa 2 jioni (8pm).

Kwa maelezo zaidi, wasilana na: Reading - 07888841971, Birmingham - 07776358464, London - 07817479845, Milton Keynes - 07787357618, Brighton -  07950324330
 au
07944632826 / Rev, Emmanuel Chatawe - Mwenyekiti na  07776358464 Jackson Kapama - Katibu Mkuu.

DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT STRESS IS?
Okay.

 A beautiful girl asks you for a ride home. On the way she faints and you take her to hospital. The doctor says; Congratulations! You are going to become a father.

 THAT'S IT. YOU GET STRESSED.

 You say: But that baby is not mine. The girl says: He is the father of my baby.

 YOU GET MORE STRESSED.

 ...and to prove your innocence demand a DNA test. The police arrive, and a DNA test is done. The report comes in according to which you are infertile and can never become a father.
 
WHAT? YOU GET EVEN MORE STRESSED!

Anyhow you thank God that this ordeal is over, and start driving home, then you start thinking; "at home I already have 2 kids. Whose are those??"

NOW THAT'S WHAT REAL STRESS ACTUALLY IS.

Ama kwa hakika picha hizi nikizilinganisha na makasri yaliyojengwa sasa, na jinsi wanavyochukua sheria katika kutetea na kuhalalisha ni kwa nini waishi katika makasri yenye thamani hiyo, ati "hali halisi hasa ya usalama kipindi cha sasa ikilinganishwa na nyakati za Mwalimu...", wingi wa maswali unazidi majibu!

Baada ya kwisha vita vya Kagera mwaka 1979, Jeshi la Wananchi wa Tanzania (JWTZ) liliamua kumjengea Mwalimu Nyerere nyumba ya kuishi, ikiwa kama zawadi kwake kwa ushindi wa vita hivyo, akiwa Amiri Jeshi Mkuu wa wakati huo. Nyumba hiyo, ambayo ilijengwa Butiama ilijengwa na kitengo cha ujenzi cha JWTZ.

Imejengwa katika eneo la Mwitongo, karibu na eneo ilipojengwa nyumba nyingine ya Mwalimu Nyerere aliyojengewa na Chama cha Mapinduzi.

Ujenzi wa nyumba hii ulipoanza, wanajeshi walikatwa mishahara yao kuchangia gharama za ujenzi. Hata hivyo baadaye Serikali ya awamu ya pili ya Rais Ali Hassan Mwinyi ilichukuwa jukumu la kuendeleza ujenzi ambao uliisha wakati wa Serikali ya awamu ya tatu ya Rais. Benjamin Mkapa, na kukabidhiwa kwa Mwalimu Nyerere mwaka 1999.

Aliishi kwenye nyumba hiii kwa siku 14 tu kabla ya kwenda kwenye matibabu Uingereza ambako alifariki tarehe 14 Oktoba, 1999. - *Madaraka Nyerere

I have said it, and I don't know when I will stop saying it, that, 'social networks can make you or break you' and 'social networks can hire you or fire you' therefore, be wise and know what you share on these sites. Do not share anything that you wouldn't want to share openly. Don't act out of emotion. Your anger can evoke emotions that when you act on them, the end results could be devastating and real dissapointment. You will regret but it will have occurred because, as the old Swahili saying goes, 'maji yakimwagika hayazoleki' literally meaning, 'you can't pick up spilled waters', the case of, 'cry me a river'.

Take note of these 10 true life scenarios mentioned in this article from CNN:

1. Consider a recent story of a female client in her 30s, who came to Altshuler seeking a divorce from husband. She claimed her husband, an alcoholic, was drinking again. The husband denied it. It was her word against his word, Altshuler says, until a mutual friend of the couple stumbled across Facebook photos of the husband drinking beer at a party a few weeks earlier."Facebook is a great source of evidence," Altshuler said. "It's absolutely solid evidence because he's the author of it. How do you deny that you put that on?"
2. Social media stalking skills have become invaluable to the legal world for divorce cases in particular. Online photo albums, profile pages, wall comments, status updates and tweets have become gold mines for evidence and leads. Today, divorce and family law firms routinely cull information posted on social media sites -- the flirty exchanges with a paramour, unsavory self-revelations and compromising photographs -- to buttress their case. Posting hugging and kissing photos online can show a happily married relationship, or it can expose a secretive affair. 
3. At least 80 percent of attorneys surveyed by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers cited a growth in the number of cases that used social media over the last five years.
   
4. Divorce attorneys say social media sites have opened windows for infidelity because it's become easier to rekindle romance with an old flame or flirt with a stranger. And the posted, shared, and tagged evidence of infidelity is precisely the type of evidence attorneys look for online.
5. Lee Rosen, a divorce attorney in North Carolina, was investigating a North Carolina husband in his 40s accused of cheating on his wife. The husband failed to set privacy controls on his Facebook wall, an area where users can post information. Rosen noticed a suspicious message from the husband's younger female co-worker. The post was the hunch he needed to steer him in right direction. Rosen reports about a quarter of his divorce cases use information found on social media sites.
6. "For example, someone may be cheating, but they are married," says president and senior digital investigator Giovanni Masucci. "If their status on the web page says single, that's a major red flag." Masucci estimated about half the social media cases they investigate expose some kind of cheating.
7. Many times the spouse will "de-friend" a partner but forget about their shared friends, who can play detective and access information on their profile.
8. "It's amazing how people tell their life stories," says Marlene Eskind Moses, a divorce attorney in Tennessee, who represented a Tennessee woman who believed her husband was cheating on her. After the wife found herself blocked from her husband's Facebook page, she found the profile page of the other woman whom she suspected in the affair. On that woman's profile page, a public album of photos taken on a romantic getaway appeared. Scenic shots of South Carolina's mountains. Her husband and another woman embracing in front of an art gallery. Portraits of the couple with their faces nuzzled close together.
9. Elizabeth K. Englander, professor of psychology at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts, says people divulge information on social media because they believe no one will ever see the information they post. "The sense online is sort of like the mob effect," Englander said. "You feel like you're one in a million, and so who will ever notice you?" But when someone does notice, that's when some divorce attorneys pounce. Information copied from social media sites can sway the outcome of alimony payment disputes and custody fights, attorneys say. Some parents have even lost a child because of the behavior they exhibited online, the lawyers say.
10. The ultimate goal, after all, is to catch a spouse in a lie. Sometimes it's a wife claiming she can't afford child support payments but subsequently purchased expensive jewelry and posted photos of the items on Facebook. Or if a husband who claims he doesn't have anger problems while his social media profile is loaded with expletives. Once there is evidence of a person caught in an obvious lie, attorneys say, it undermines the rest of their credibility with the judge.

You can read the whole article, (uncut) at CNN.com

 A man came home from work and found his three children outside, still in their pajamas, playing in the mud, with empty food boxes and wrappers strewn all around the front yard.

The door of his wife's car was open, as was the front door to the house and there was no sign of the dog.

Proceeding into the entry, he found an even bigger mess. A lamp had been knocked over, and the throw rug was wadded against one wall. In the front room the TV was loudly blaring a cartoon channel, and the family room was strewn with toys and various items of clothing. In the kitchen, dishes filled the sink, breakfast food was spilled on the counter, the fridge door was open wide, dog food was spilled on the floor, a broken glasslay under the table, and a small pile of sand was spread by the back door.

He quickly headed up the stairs, stepping overtoys and more piles of clothes, looking for his wife. He was worried she may be ill, or that something serious had happened. He was met with a small trickle of water as it made its way out the bath room door. As he peered inside he found wet towels, scummy soap and more toys strewn over the floor. Miles of toilet paper lay in a heap and toothpaste had been smeared over the mirror and walls.

As he rushed to the bedroom, he found his wife...
  
Still curled up in the bed in her pajamas, reading a novel. She looked up at him, smiled, and asked how his day went. He looked at her bewildered and asked, "What happened here today?" She again smiled and answered, "You know every day when you come home from work and you tell me that I do nothing?"
"Yes," was his incredulous reply.

She answered, "Well, today I did nothing!"

Priceless!

On Sunday the previous week after the service this is what happened 

Pastor(On the public address). After the service I would like to meet Nancy in the office  
Nancyin the office: Yes Past
Pastor: You are talented in singing and I love your singing and would like you bring out your talent by leading the church choir. Please come in Saturday for I will be away and continue training the choir

On Monday at a local shop Nancy meets Debora...

Nancy : Do you remember on Sunday the pastor asked me to remain?
Debora: Yes yes  yes
Nancy : He told me he loves me. Pliz do not tell any one else
Debora:Promise

On Tuesday Debora meets Magdalene in the market...

Debora: Do you remember on Sunday the pastor asked Nancy to remain behind
Magdalene: yes yes yea
Debora: Kuna MAMBO
Magdalene: what?
Debora: Pastor went to bed with Nancy
Magdalene : Oh Noooh!
Debora: Please do not tell any one else
Magdalene:Promise
On Tuesday on the way to women's meeting Magdalene meets Salome...

Magdalene: do you remember on Sunday the pastor asked Nancy to remain behind
Salome: Oh Yea, KUNA NINI?
Magdalene: Pastor has been going to bed with Nancy and now she is pregnant
Salome: Nancy of all people and the way she pretends to be holier than thought, I can't believe it
Magdalene: You stay on I cannot believe it but, do not mention to any one else
Salome: Promise

On Wednesday on the way to a netball match, Salome meets Adelina...

Salome: do you remember on Sunday the pastor asked Nancy to remain behind
Adelina: yes. What is wrong with that?
Salome: I don't care whether it is wrong or right but Nancy is the private wife of the pastor and she gave birth on birth on Monday to bouncing baby. I do not know the baby's sex yet.
Adelina: and Nancy used to look like she had added weight. Now I know. Remember the day she vomited in young girls meeting and the wife of the pastor took her to hospital . She should have known it was the co wife she was dealing with; and remember how the pastor prayed for Nancy; A whole 30 minutes as though God was deaf.
Salome: I just wanted you to know but do not tell any one else
Adelina: Promise


On Thursday Adelina at the bible study meets bible study group...

Adelina: do you remember on Sunday the pastor asked Nancy to remain behind
All : Yes
Adelina: Do not say it was me for I will deny whether denial is sin or not
Angela : what is it? Even Peter denied Jesus and he went ahead to lead church when Jesus was gone to heaven
Elizabeth :Yes denial is not a blasphemy please tell us
Adelina: The known second wife of pastor Nancy gave birth to twins on Wednesday and because they were immature and there was no incubator, they unfortunately died
All : God have mercy on our church. We are doomed .
Mosha: Nancy of all people. And the way I asked her hand in marriage and she turned me down saying she was still waiting for the lords voice. Kumbe she was waiting for the pastors voice. Haki ya Mungu she is the axis of evil in our church
Blandina :Now you can consider me since Nancy has a husband
Mosha : This is not a joking matter
Adelina : Hey lets not fight but do not mention my name
All : Promise.

On Friday in the market, Blandina meets the church chairman...

Chairman: Praise God Blandina
Blandina : ah ah praise the Lord chairman
Chairman : why do you laugh Blandina. Have you backslidden or do I have an issue?
Blandina: do you remember on Sunday the pastor asked Nancy to remain behind
Chairman: Yes
Blandina: Am ashamed
Chairman: with what, who and why?
Blandina : You church leaders think we are stupid
Chairman: I do not understand you yet
Blandina: You mean you do not know that the pastor has a whole group of girl friends in the church and a number of wives. I also think you are the same since you are friends . In fact Nancy is one of them and she gave birth yesterday to still born triplets who were secretly taken to the rural area of the pastor and burial will be on Monday not to attract public attention.
Chairman : Shetani ASHINDWE! No wonder the pastor never invited me when he met Nancy
Blandina : I only wanted you to know but do not tell anybody
Chairman Promise

On Saturday at the couples fellowship chairman meet all...

Chairman: I hope you understand why the pastor could not make it to today fellowship
All : No, is anything wrong?
Chairman: I Ihope our church is not coming to an end. You know the bible says it all. In the last days there will be men who will resemble the people of the cloth but they will deny the real power of god.
Msengi :Wacha kutuzungusha. We are not babies
Chairman : O.K. The pastor is mourning the untimely death of four kids born by his two girl friends at the same time but in different parts of the village; twins each; who died for varied reasons. It is even being suspected it was abortions which went wrong and the police are holding the two girls and the midwife involved for further investigations. Since all of them are our church members, I hope the name of the pastor will not be mentioned in the fracas.
Mushi : So the pastor has gone to hiding and that is why he is not here today. I swear atanirudishia zile sadaka nilizotoa kanisani since I joined the church.
Mosha : Mimi siendi nyumbani, napita kwake nichukue advace refund kabla foleni ya wadai haijawa ndefu sana.
All: Let us come mapema kesho tujue mwanzo na mwelekeo wa haya mambo.

On Sunday at 6.00 am the church is full...

Chairman : Praise and worship choruses please
All: let us sing "all the things done under the bed shall be broadcast at the hill top"
Pastor : Still in his house; My wife I think we need to hurry up for the revival times have kicked in. I cannot believe the church is full at six o'clock in the morning. Even some people are worshipping from outside. Our prayers are answered. Praise be to GOD
Chairman: I know he is scared let me bring him in
All : Oh yeah!
Pastor: what is the chairman talking about? Let me go and check
All: KANAJILETA with louder and louder singing "Yote yawezekana kwa imani.."
Chairman: Every one quiet! This is the moment of truth
Pastor: Yes the moment when the devil must be ashamed is here and now
All : Oh yes, say that again and again and again pastor
Pastor : Let us sing the chorus: '..every knee shall bow and every tongue confess..'
All : Confess first before we sing and bow to pray for you
Chairman: Pastor vipi huko na matanga ya extended familia yako kesho?
Pastor : who died and when?
All : Wacha kujifanya!!! !!!!
Chairman: oh yes One is your Nancy 's twins

Pastor, and wife plus Nancy fainted

Mtunzi?: Hafahamiki (via dada Happy, thx for sharing).

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana, who, in his Reason in Common Sense, The Life of Reason, Vol.1" au "Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. - Edmund Burke (1729-1797)" kwa tafsrifi ya lugha yetu ni kuwa, "Watu wasioijua historia ni rahisi kurudia yaliyokwishapita", kwa maana kwamba, jamii inaweza kufanya mambo kwa kurudia rudia ili hali mambo hayo yalikwishatendeka siku zilizopita, matokeo yake ni kupoteza muda wa kusonga mbele au kusababisha madhara ambayo yangeweza kuepukwa ikiwa wangeifahamu historia.

Tarehe 15 Machi 2009, mtengeneza filamu na msemaji katika masuala ya kijamii, Reggie Bullock alitoa filamu fupi kwa jina la "A War For Your Soul" ambayo ilitizamwa zaidi ya mara milioni sita ndani ya mwaka mmoja.

Video hii ilitengenezwa ili kuwapa moyo vijana wa Marekani wa asili ya Afrika walio katika hatari ya kupotoka na kuvunjika moyo kutokana na matatizo wanayokumbana nayo katika jamii wanamoishi. Ndani ya video hiyo yumo mtu wa kufikirika kwa jina la 'Master of Darkness" ambaye anawakilisha taswira ya roho ya mtu mwovu mwenye nguvu ya kuingilia watu kiroho na kuwasababisha watende maovu juu yao na watu wengine.

Filamu hii inaonesha kuwa "Master of Darkness" anatumia njia hii ya watu wa jamii fulani kuuana wenyewe kwa wenyewe. Jambo la kusikitisha zaidi  ni kuwa, vijana wa kati ya umri wa miaka 14 - 17 ndiyo wanaoongoza katika mauaji haya. Ripoti za visa na matukio ya mauaji ya watu wa jamii ya Kiafrika kuuana wenyewe kwa wenyewe inaongezeka, kinyume na ilivyokuwa enzi za utumwa ambapo Mwafrika aliuawa na watu wasiokuwa Waafrika.

video hii ikitumika vizuri itawasaidia vijana kuelewa historia yao na maovu waliyotendewa wazee wao na jinsi walivyopambana nayo hadi kufikia kupata uhuru wa heshima ya utu na ubinadamu na hivyo kutoa changamoto mahsusi katka kupambana na kurekebisha maisha ya sasa.

Video  hii imeshapokea sifa kemkem kutoka kwa mameya wa majiji mbalimbali, viongozi wa miji, vijana na vikundi mbalimbali vya kijamii duniani. Vijana wanapewa changamoto kushika hatamu katika kulea na kukuza vyema watoto wa leo ili kujenga taifa lililo bora.

Video hii inaokenana katika ukurasa wa video (bofya hapa).

Enyi vijana kumbukeni tahadhari kabla ya hatari jambo muhimu katika utendaji wenu wa kila siku. Mlinzi wa maisha yako ni wewe mwenyewe na kamwe usitegemee  mtu mwigine akulindie nafsi yako.

Kumbukeni kuwa kila mtu hulia mama yangu na yarabi nafsi yangu na siyo mama yetu wala yarabi nafsi zetu. Zoezeni dhamiri zenu ili ziwe na utambuzi wa yaliyo mema na mabaya  ili mpate tahadhari kabla ya hatari. Tatizo kubwa lenu vijana ni ubishi wakati mnapopewa madokezo ya mapema kuhusu hatari zinazoyakabili maisha yenu ya kila siku. Intaneti umekuwa uga wa kusaka mapenzi chini ya upofu wa fikra na dhana ya kwenda na wakati huku malezi bora ya wazazi yakifumbiwa macho kwa kiasi kikubwa. Nakumbuka maneno ya mwanazuoni wa  lugha ya Kiswahili wakati aliposema kwa majonzi makubwa: "KIZAZI  CHA WAZEE KULEA WAJUKUU NA SIYO WAJUKUU KUWALEA WAZEE. - Ray Njau (kutoka katika mfululizo wa maoni katika ukurasa wa Facebook)