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Kenya: Boats to Abolish Sex-for-Fish Trade

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Kisumu East DC Mabeya Mogaka (third left) joins the No Sex for Fish women group during the donation of six boats by the US Peace Corps Kenya at Nyamware Beach in Kano, Kisumu County.

Women groups in Kano, Kisumu County have benefitted from boats under the 'No Sex for Fish' initiative.

The boats will provide them with an opportunity to generate income without engaging in risky relationships. The six boats delivered by an NGO, US Peace Corps Kenya in Collaboration with VIRED International will help the women to expedite fishing activities in the Lake Victoria.

Delivering the boats at Nyamware beach on Wednesday, the Director of VIRED International Prof Okeyo Owuor who was accompanied by Peace Corp volunteer in Kenya Michael Guelfe and Kisumu East DC Mabeya Mogaka said the boats will help stop the sex-for-fish trade.

Owuor noted that this has led to an increase in HIV infections especially among the women living in the Lake region. "In a bid to help empower the women in the Lake region, my organization in collaboration with the US Peace Corps Kenya resolved to provide the vessels to the women to help reduce chances of female along the Lake region attracting HIV infections," he added.

Often, women may have relationships with random fishermen to acquire fish commodities for sale and profit in a risky affair, he added. He lamented that the women have no choice because very few of them own boats, which he noted is a key resource of the fishing trade, he said. He said VIRED will provide logistical arrangements to ensure sustainability of the process.

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  • ras sideeq
    Nov 22 2011, 20:38

    AGAIN WHEN I HEAR THAT THE US IS EMPOWERING AFRICANS THIS IS A JOKE. LET US REFRESH HISTORY HE US DOES NOT EMPOWER ANY ONE EXCEPT ITS FREINDS AND NO BLACK NATION OR STATE IS ACTUALY A FREIND OF THE US. WE WILL REITERATE THAT THE US WAS AN ENSLAVER HAS NEVER APOLOGISED FOR SLAVERY AND ACTUALY THINKS BLACKS ARE INFERIOR AND HAVE THE MOST RACIST PER CAPITA WHITES ON THE PLANET. FOR WQIZE WORDS THERE IS STILL APARTHEID IN THE US SOME THINH THAT HAS NOT CHANGED EVEN AFTER ELECTING A BLAK MAN AS PRESIDENT. I CONTINUE TO STRESS TO AFRICAN NATION THE TIMES ARE NOW WHEN THE COLONIAL IMPERIAL FORCES SHOULD RECOGNISE THAT THEY ARE NO LONGER ATHREAT TO BLACK PEOPLE. THE BLACK MAN HAS LEARNED THAT JESUS IS NOT WHITE AND HE IS NOT GOD. EDUCATION WHICH WAS LIMITED UNDER WHITE AUTHORITY OR VIRTUALY NONEXISTENT WILL NOT CHANGE WITH MORE WHITE INSTITUTIONS. AFRICANS THE USB REGION AS IT IS KNOWN COMMONLY BY WHITES WHICH IS AN INFERIOR MENTION TO THE PEOPLE OF THAT PART OF AFRICA. THEY HAVE MANY WORDS AND METHODS OF CODING WORDS TO HUMILIATE AND DISMISS YOU AS THEIR INFERIORS. NOW THEY ARE IN DYRE STRAIGHTS THEY NEED AFRICA MORE THAN EVER. FOR FIVE HUNDRED YEARS THEY USED AFRICANS AND ABUSED THE CONTINENT THEY USED IT AS THEIR TOILET THEIR TESTING GROUNDS FOR THEIR DRUGS. THEY USED IT TO TEST THEIR NUCLEAR , BIOLOGICAL GERM DISEASES AND THE REST YET THEY FOUND THAT THE BLACK MAN WAS SO RESILIENT THAT THEY JUST WOULD NOT DIE.EVERY WICKED DEVOCE HAS BEEN USED AGAINST OUR CHILDREN OUR ELDERS AND OUR VULNERABLE. THEY CONTINUED EVEN IN THIS CENTURY TO RAPE OUR BLACK SISTERS IN KENYA AND THEY DISMISS THESE CLACIMS AS IF THEY WERE DEALING WITH GOATS OR SHEEPS. WHAT I WILL SAY TO THE BLACK MEN IN AFRICA WHO ARE BRAIN DEAD AND FORGET THAT THE SAME BLACK WOMAN WHO THEY ABUSE IS THE SAME BLACK WOMAN THAT GAVE BIRTH TO THEM. SELF ESTEEM IS SO LOW IN CERTAIN PARTS OF AFRICA WHERE THEIR ARE UN FORCES AND THE IMPERIALIST HAS A HIGH HAND .THESE PLACES WE SEE TYHE MOST RAPES AND ABUSES OF BLACK WOMEN BY YOUTHS AND DISENFRANCHISED INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE TAUGHT THAT THEY ARE IN FACT UNFERIOR AND THEY HAVE NOTHING TO LOVE FOR. WHO IS BEHIND THESE TEACHINGS? THESE SAME EOPLE WHO ARE SELLING YOU GUNS AND GIVING YOU AID WITH CONDITIONS THAT YOU GET CHRISTIANISED WITH THEIR PREAIST AND THEIR IDEOLOGYU. WHERE EVER WE SEE THESE THOUGHTSWE SEE CHURCHES WITH PICTURES OF WHITE JESUS. THIS PATRICULAR IMPRESSION IS LEFT LASTING ON THE MINDS OF CHILDREN. SO WHENEVER A WHITE PREACHER COMES FROM ABROAD THEY ACTUALY THINK HE CAN BLESS THEM AND HE IS SOME GREAT GIFT FROM GOD. THEY BASK IN THIS INFERIOR NONSENSE THEY PREACH. THEY NEED TO BE SAVED BY YOU. IT IS YOUR CULTURE THEY HAVE STOLEN AND SELLING BACK TO YOU WITH A FRESH PACKAGE. THEY ARE THE MASTERS OF REPACKAGING AND SELLING STOLEN GOODS. THEY EVEN WAS SELLING YOU ONE OF THE TIME. THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHPO WANT YOU TO STOP HAVING SEX WHO ACTUALLY STOPPED YOUR CULTURE OF CIRCUMCISION TO THE FEMALE EGNITALS BECAUSE AFRICANS AS THE OLDEST PEOPLE ON THE PLANET AND THE FIRST TO BE GIVEN LAWS BY THE "ALMIGHTY GOD" KNEW OF HARLOTRY AND WHOREDOM THIS WAS THEIR WAY OF PREVNTING THE LOSE IDEOLOGY THAT TH WEST ENTERTAINS. THE WEST IS THE PERPETRATER OF LOSE MORALS THEY ARE THE ACTIVIST FOR PERVERTED BEHAVIORS. THEY WANT TO LESSEN YOUR FAMILY STRUCTURES BY ENCOURAGING LEWD BEHAVIOE THINGS THAT ARE NOT COMPLIMENTARY TO THE WITNESSES OF THE "ALMIGHTY GOD". WHAT HAS HAPPENED IS THEY HAVE LOST CONTROL THOUGHT THEY RECIGNISE THAT YOU STILL INHIBIT THIS READINESS TO BELEIVE THAT WHITES ARE INDEED SUPERIOR YOU SEM NOT TO BE INTERESTED IN BEHAVING AS CARE FREE AND ADULTERERS AS THEY ARE. THEY ARE PEOPLE WITHOUT A GOD . THEY BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE GODS SO THEY SERVE NO ONE BUT THEM SELVES. THEY CLAIM TO BE STOPPING THE SEX TRADE THEY ARE THE ONES PROMOTING IT. THEY COME TO AFRICA TO PREY ON OUR CHILDREN THEY REVEL IN THE POVERTY OF AFRICA. THEY ARE USERS AND PERVERTS THEY ARE CHILD MOLESTERS AND ABOMINATIONS ON THE PLANET. AFRICA MUST BE REALY CAREFUL OF SOME ONE WHO TELLS YOU THAT UNLES YOU START SLEEPING WITH A NEXT MAN AND ABOLISH THE FAMILY STRUCTURE THEN HE WILL NOT HELP YOU. THIS KIND OF PEWRSON IS SINCERLY WICKED AND UNJUST, THIS TYPE OF PERSON WHO HAS NO MORALITY HAS NO HONER AND TRULY NO SHAME. THEY WANT TO USE AFRICA AS AN EXCUSE TO FEEL BETTER ABOUT THEMSELVES THEY PROMOTE GOING TO AFRICA ITS CHEAP THEY CAN ABUSE CHILDREN STOPS THEM FROM DOING IT AT HOME. THEY WANT TO MOLEST LITTLE BOYS SO THEY ENCOURAGE THESEE THINGS SO THEY CAN FEEL THEY ARE DOING SOMETHING LEGAL SHOULD THEY GET CAUGHT. THEY CAN THEN SAY YES ITS LEGAL I DID MOT THINK IT WAS A CHILD. THEY ARTE VERY CLEVER AND UNSCRUPULOUS PEOPLE. THEY HAVE NO VALUE SYSTEM WHEN IT COMES TO THE BLACK MAN. ITS GOING ON A THOUSAND YEARS SINCE THEY HAVE BEEN LORDING OVER THE BLACK MAN AND HIS POSESSESSIONS YET THEIR HAS BEEN LITTLE ACOMPLISHMENT FOR THE BLACKMAN. WE SAW THEM IN VIORY COAST PROMOTING WAR FARE AND FUELING HATE AND DIVISIONS AMONGST THE PEOPLE. THEY FELT NO SHAME IN WATCHING THE MASS EXODUS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. THEY COMPREHENSIVELY DISTABLISED THIS NATION FOR THEIR OWN GREEDY LUSTFUL PURPOSES. THEY WANTED TO TAKE OVER THE COUNTRY WHOLE SALE BUT THE REVOLUTIONS IN NORTH AFRICA PREVENTED THEM FROM DOING SO. THEY STILL CONTINUE TO SEW SEEDS OF DIVISIONS IN AFRICA THEY CONTINUE WITH THIS MIDEAST TALK AS IF EGYPT MAGICALY LEFT AFRICA AND REINVENTED ITESLF WITH DIFFEREN TLONGITUDES AND LATTITUDES. THEY DENY THAT WITH THE HELP OF BLACK NEWS READERS THAT THE REVOLUTION STARTED IN COTE d' IVOIRE. THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THAT THE AFRICANS WERE THE FIRST TO DISTANT THEMSELVES FROM THE LIAR THE THIEF THE KIDNAPPER THE TERRORITS THE HIJACKER THE MURDERER THE TORTURERE THE CHILD MOLESTER THE RAPIST. THESE ARE THEIR SIGNATURES FAR FROM BEING CREDIBLE FAR FROM BEING HONEST. THIS SI THE TIEM FOR BLACK MAN TO FIND THEMSELVES THEY NEED TO STOP WORSHIPING THESE DEVILS AS GODS AND SEND THEM TO THE DEEPEST PART OF THE FIRE WHICH IS WHERE THEY WANT YOU TO GO.. MISERY LOVES COMPANY THIS APPLICABLE IN THESE TIMES. THERE WAS A GREAT BLACK KING WHO WAS NOT PUT ON HIS THRONE BY ANY WHITES OR INFLUINCED BY THE POWERS OF ANY WHITES . HE SAT UPON HIS THRONE AS PERSON OF ANTIQUITY YET YOU AS BLACK PEOPLE ON THE CONTIENT FORGETY TO REVR THIS MAN. HE WAS NEVER A TYRANT OR A BULLY HE HAD GREAT WISENESS. HE WAS BORN OF THE SEED OF SOLOMAN SO WE KNOW FOR A FACT THAT THE VERSES OF THE SCRIPTURES ARE REAL. HE WAS THE FOUNDING FATHER OF WORLD PEACE AND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS HE WAS THE ORATOR THAT SPOKE OUT AGAINST RACEISM, FACISIM , BIGOTORY HATE ETHNICCITY. HE PROCLAIMED THAT" UNTIL THE PHILOSPHY THAT HOLDS ONE MAN INFERIOR AND NOTHER SUPERIOR IS ABOLISHED AND UTTERLY DESTROYED THEIR WOUULD BE WARS. UNTIL THE COLOUR OF A MANS SKIN IS NOF NO MORE SIGNIFICANCE THAN THE COLOUR OF HIS EYES THERE WOULD BE WARS. UNTIL THAT DAY THE HUMAN RACE WILL NOT KNOW PEACE" THESE ARE WORDS OF PRPHETIC NATURES AND THERE WERE MANY THINGS HE HAD TO SAY YET THE AFRICAN CONTINENT KNOWS NOTHING OF THIS GREAT BLACK KING. INSTEAD THE LESSONS ARE ABOUT THE IMPERIALIST AND HIS BRAIN WASH EDUCATION. THERE IS NO WHITE GOD AND "THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY WHOM SITS UPON HIS THRONE IS ONLY ONE" THERE ARE NO ASISSTANTS WHO HELPS HI, 2HE2 IS NOT DIVIDED INTO THREE "HE2 IS INDIVISIBLE AND THE SOLE OWNER OF THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING IN IT. THEIR IS ORDDER IN THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE . THEIR IS ONLY CHAOS BY THOSE WHO ARE ABOMINATERS AND SINNERS THOSE WHO HAVE NO PLACE IN THE HERE AFTER SO THEY BULD THEIR HATE INTHIS LIFE SO THEY CAN CONFUSE AS MANY SOULS AS POSIBLE WHY? THEY NO THE "ALMIGHTY GOD" WILL NOT BE PARTIAL IN HIS JUDGEMENT THIS IS WHY "HE" SENDS MANY TO WRN TO INSTRUCT AND TO KEEP VIGIL THAT HIS CHILDREN ARE NOT LED ASTRAY. THESE PEOPLE ARE ASTUMBLING BLOCK TO THE FUTURE OF AFRICA AND ITS PROGRES THEY ARE WILING TO DO EVERYTHING TO KEEP YOU AS THEIR PRISONERS . THEY WANT THE POVERTY THEY WANTB TO BE YOUR GOD . HE THE ONE THAT SUPPORTS YOU GIVES YOU FOOD. WAHT KIND OF FOOD DO THEY GIVE YOU PROCESSED FOOD THINGS THEY DEVELOP IN LABORATORIES THINGS TO KEEP YOU DOWN. THEY ARE NOT YOUR FREINDS AND HAVE NEVER BEEN. THEY WANT TO KEEP YOU AS THEIR SERVANTS. THEY LIKE TO COME TO AFRICA SO THEY CAN PLAY YOUR MASTER AS THEYSAW IN THEIR HOLLYWOOD PROPOGANDA MACHINE.THE TIME FOR EDUCATION BLACK EDUCATION IS NOW WHENEVER YOU READ YOUR BIBLE LOOK AROUND AND YOU WILL FEEL THAT THIS IS YOUR BLACK HISTORY. THE WHOLE BIBLE STORY IS CENETERD IN AFRICA, EGYPT AND EVEN ISRAEL TODAY GAZA LEBANON PALESTINE THESE ARE ALL AFRICAN PLACES THE COMNTINENT CONSIST OF ARABIA YEMEN EVEN BAHRAIN THE WHOLE PERSIAN GULF IS AFRICA. GEOGRAPHY TEACHES US THAT THE GLOBE WILL REIBFUSE THESE WORDS. THEY USE TRICKNOLOGY TO SEPREATE THE WORDL AND GIVE THINGS DIFFERNT MEANINGS. WHEN YOU READ THE BIBLE YOU DONT ACTUALY READ AND HEAR WHAT YOU SEE THE WORDS THAT WERE DRUMMD INTO YOUR HEAD AHS GIVEN NEW MEANINSG TO THE TRUTH.. YOU SEE WHITE PEOPLE IN ISRAEL SO YOU THINK THEY ARE TRUE , YET THEY ARE NOT THEY ARE ALL FROM EUROPE AND AMERICA. SO THE ILLUSION HAS TAKEN CONTROL OF THE TRUTH . SO YOU DISQUALIFY THE BLACK KING WHO WAS ISRAEL WHO RULESIN ETHIOPIA, YOU BLOCK THIS OUT BECAUSE THE ILLUSION IS SO REAL THAT THE TRUTH BECOMES INSIGNIFCANT HOW DID COLUMBUS DISCOVER AMERICA THEY SAID HE FOUND IT WHEN A BLACK MAN SAID LOOK THEIR IS LAND. THIS IS RUBBISH THEY WERE BROUGHT THEIR BY ABLACK NAVIGATER WHO WAS FAMILIAR WITH THE AFRICAN TRADE THAT WASGOING ON AT THE TIME. THE MAYANS WERE A BLACK KINGEMPIRE CIVILIZATION. THE AZTECS THOUGH THE MEXICANS DO NOT WANT TO CREDIT THE BLACK MAN QAS THE BUILDERS THE ARCHITECTUREAND THE MONUMENST EXIST TILL TODAY TO IDENTUFY THE ORIGINAL OWNERS. THERE IS MUCH FOR HISTORY TO GIVE CREDIT TO THE AFRICAN FOR. THE MOORS IN EUROPE NO MATTER HOW THE WEST TRIES TO DENY EVERY WRITTEN HISTORICAL DOCUMENT IDENTIFIES THEM AS BLACKS. NOT THE BROWN SHINNED MIXED RACE PEOPLE WHO WERE BORN TO BLACK CIVILISERSTHIS WAS THE CONNECTION WITH SOUTH AMERICA AND SPAIN. THIS WHY SPAIN GOT A JUMP ON THE NEW WORLD THEY WERE DIRECTED THEIR BY BLACK SEA FARERS . MY HISTORY LESSON IS TO IMPRES UPON THE AFRICAN PSYCHE THAT THE LIARS ARE NOT INTERESTED IN YOUR LIVES IF THEY WERE YOU WOULD KNOW ALL THESE THINGS AND YOU WOULD BE THEIR TRUE ALLIES AS IT IS YOU WHO HAS THE KEYS TO THEIR FUTURE IT IS YOU WHO IS IN FACT THE OWNER OF THE VINYARD. THEY DEPEND UPON YOUR RICHES TO KEEP THEM IN THEIR LIFETSYLE THIS IS WHY THEY WERE RUDE AND IMPERTINENT TO PROCLAIM THAT THEY WOULD CUT OFF AID THIS THEY SHOULD DO. THEY WOULD BE LOST WITHOU YOU AND IT IS YOU WHO SHOULD MAKE THE DEMANDS UPON THEM WHENEVER THESE FEISTY LEADERS ASK YOU TO ENGAGE IN LEGALISING THIS PERVERSION . I TELL THEM IT WOULD BE EASIER TO UNDERSTAND IF THEY PERFORMED WHAT THIS IS ABOUT SO YOU COULD HAVE A IN SIGHT AS TO THE PRACTISE WHAT THEY PREACH. THEY NEED TO SEND PHOTOS OF THEM DEMONSTARTING WHAT ADVANCES ARE IN THIS PROGRAM . THAT THEY ARE STRONG ABOUT THIS VIEW THEY THEN SHOULD HAVE TAPES OF THEMSELVES ENGAGING INTHESE ACTIVITIES IF IT IS SO LEAGAL AND SO WISELY PRACTISED

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