You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you. Maya Angelou Searching for income for your organisation should be a responsibility that your board and managers work together […]
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May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated leadership… Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but in love with justice. Leaders not in love with money, but in love with humanity. Leaders who can subject their particular egos to the greatness of the cause. Martin Luther King, Jr. Your […]
Mrs Nanja is a board member at the Cooking Club. She was Chidi’s teacher at school and is now retired. This week Chidi needed help, and Mrs Nanja joined the activity. Chidi was initially nervous, but Mrs Nanja made it clear that she was there to help Chidi, not to take over. The activity was […]
When we set up our youth project, we had recently left university. We wanted to make a difference for other young women. We felt that people wouldn’t take our youth organisation seriously as we were all young – and all women. We reached out to our networks and were lucky that some established people were […]
We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square. Michelle Obama Chidi has been working hard with her youth club for quite a while. Many people in the community […]
Chidi had a great youth activity idea. The sister of a lady from her church was visiting from Paris, where she was working for an international organisation and had agreed to come to the cooking club. The only professional women that she had introduced to the young women in the club had previously been local. […]
Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathise with each other because each of us is more […]
Every one of us can make a contribution. And quite often we are looking for the big things and forget that, wherever we are, we can make a contribution. Sometimes I tell myself, I may only be planting a tree here, but just imagine what’s happening if there are billions of people out there doing […]
If you don’t understand, ask questions. If you’re uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It’s easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more. Sometimes people just want to feel heard. Here’s to possibilities of friendship and connection and […]
Leadership is about falling in love with the people you serve and the people falling in love with you. Joyce Banda Chidi’s main problem is that she started with a ‘how’ rather than a ‘why’. Her ‘how’ was organising a cooking club for young women and her ‘why’ was to help young women to stay […]