A PROGRESS REPORT

Hello to all who are reading this weblog. Please feel free to leave comments wherever and whenever you want. Your feelings are important to us in this work.

It is great that we are finally feeling able to grow into our new place and new space here at our new office and production as well as Global Empowerment Center for the training of social trainers worldwide so that we may take our fine programs out into the world wherever they are needed to uplift the lives of young people of all ethnicities and cultures as well as languages and give them an opportunity to one day have their own businesses in their own community and to become leaders of their peers who are searching for a better life, a peaceful and productive life as successful human beings and respected for their good work and good lives not as mere survivors in the jungles of madness around the world that us as adults have caused such grief and loss to exist in their young and upcoming lives.

I must commend the great work of my two dear sons in the struggle - both are true soldiers who are 'against all odds' proving that we can truly play by society's rules and beat them at their own game in the name of youth, women and prisoners around the world in order to give all oppressed peoples a face, a voice and to welcome them into loving arms with encouragement for them to leave their problems and pain behind and come into a Good and Loving Family of Bajito Onda Self Sufficient Social Programmes.

I just realized i run my sentences into long ones becoming paragraphs but it is my writing style so please forgive me. Afterall, I am 'one of my people' whose life has been changed by this wonderful peace ministry and educational outreach. I am not perfect although I am in the difficult position now of Global Founder and Leader. My dearest goal is to become humble as the earth itself so that in being on the level of the earth that others walk on I am able to lift up all those lives who have come into our path. In lifting them up, some of them will join us in this movement to lift up others who have fallen, and together we will form a 'red' in spanish / web or network in English and we will soon perfect our methodologies and processes so that saving lives and futures is as effortless as having them wrecked senselessly.

The nonstop hours spent in true dedication to this movement by my African son, Amidu Mansaray, Global Outreach Director and himself the humble Chapter President of Bajito Onda Africa Foundation, a member in excellent standing of the African Commission of Human and Peoples Rights. Amidu came to the USA two years ago when my struggle was at its hardest. He slept on the floor of our old warehouse space, it was freezing cold and he was freezing. There was no place for him to put his clothes he brought and we had very little to offer him even in the way of food. He was shocked that here in America our foundation had no support or even volunteers. He hugged me and told me he was here to learn and serve so that he could return to Africa and implement my work there. He was able to see the miracles that could be performed by his joining me in the struggle. He went back to Africa and immediately began recruiting social soldiers to help us form a great movement in Africa. Amidu's great love for children and the oppressed drives him to continue establishing ways to reach the children of the war torn regions of the Continent. Amidu was born into the war torn area Sierra Leonne and due to that war moved to The Gambia where Bajito Onda now has the Official Observer Status, a very high working status. As a young man he was also a victim of the wars and destruction left behind. At only 27 years old he now has three college degrees and his heart is to go back and save the children of the world through our educational outreaches. amidu.mansaray@bajitoonda.org We from here in the US were able to get some people to help us send Amidu a laptop, digital camera, scanner and other supplies so that we can communicate our work better. Antonio Melin, my Mexican Son and President of Bajito Onda of the Latin Americas has been working tirelessly to develop global relations as well as to continue to empower the children of Mexico, who because they have joined gangs, or children who ever so sadly have become the street vendors selling everything they can from stolen merchandise, to washing the busy traffic windshields when cars stop for a red light to even prostitution at such young ages as seven years old. When I went to mexico on all my trips i have been taken to all the districts where they children are reported to be so violent and out of control. At some times I was afraid to go into the groups of up to 200 kids all with puzzled angry faces, often quick to make gang signs or act sneaky around me - but after talking to them like they are human beings and that i am not there to judge them or harm them, they quickly become a multitude of little persons deserving of so much love and compassion. Antonio and I cannot understand why they are so mistreated except for the pure economic fact of a population that is becoming younger and younger and having less and less parental or community guidance. It is a division that is becoming greater and greater today. Bajito Onda is not afraid to bridge that division and bring those children back into a loving and empowering mainstream society. please feel free to let Antonio hear from you as well at antonio.melin@bajitoonda.org .

I must leave you now to leave one more important post - Blessings to all of you. Please pray for our continued growth and strength in this movement so that we may reach thousands upon thousands of innocent lives and empower them for their future. THEY ARE OUR FUTURE!