Tumbuka is like tangerine
Because it soothe my taste
And sweeten my day
Bringing delight through dancing

Tumbuka is like shallow stream
It flows with free favours
Pruning potentials to prosperity
Without counting costs

Tumbuka is like Zimbabwean Ambassador
It travel over the world
Preaching salsa and boogie dancing
Demonstrating gifts of Zimbabweans

Tumbuka is like a wave of water
With swimmers resurfacing
Giving gazers great gratitude
Entertaining with enjoyment

Tumbuka is tonguetied
Its bloodstream is seriously blocked
Standing on the verge of vanity
Hunting for health revivers

Tumbuka is thanking you today
Appreciating your support
It will financially function
Opening the zeal of Zimbabweans
No longer tonguetied but transformed.

Up in the azure sky shoots the sun's rays
With its mellow rays
Rises to meet another day, another trouble
To me it's not yet any hopes rays
As more weigh down my tender shoulder
Imagine a girl of only thirteen

Setting alight fire in the young of morning
Before the cocks signal the alarm
Blanketed by berserk morning air
A beast of burden for firewood, so I am bound
My path darkened by distressing danger
All those bumpy long distances I have to foot
Not to forget the baby clinging on my yonder back 

In the thorn infested forests
Drawing water in deep wells
My head carrying heavy bucket
That threatens to break my back
It makes me tired to think about
My rainbow is my tears 

All Zimbabwean girls
Stand up and be counted
Cry for thy renaissance
The rape, torture, assault and victimisation
Our life an eerie furnace of denied paradise
A swamp of devastating diseases
A journey in great jeopardy
A sad song of denied education
I am weary. So weary. Oh weary
A pain invading my pride
A breath for fresh air cometh not
Don't fall Zimbabwean girl, up and fight
Yearn for another life
Another era.

Owen McDowell, from Sheffield City Council's Asylum Team, died last week. It was a shock to all of us who worked closely with him and he will be very much missed.

The funeral will take place on Friday 14th March at Grenoside Crematorium at 2.45 pm and afterwards at the Hillsborough Hotel, Langsett Road.

The family have requested no flowers but donations to ASSIST via the funeral directors John Fairest, 10-56, Penistone Rd North Wadsley Bridge Sheffield, S6 1LQ Tel: 0114 234 3129.

It is indeed saddened to read that the UK Government have plans to barred Asylum Seekers from receiving free health care treatment in UK, I wish to remind us all and especially the law makers that Asylum seekers are all foreigners and from every part of the World they come from they all have a very poor health care facility, most of whom came into UK with different illnesses, most have been in detention in their different countries, they are mostly malnourished as a result of the fact that they are coming from underdeveloped countries or could have undergone so many ill-treatments, some of whom came to UK by ship, and some where transported by lorries across the borders in a very unpleasant situation, some of whom are physically and psychologicaly imbalanced. These vulnerable people if denied access to health care will tantamount to a massive outbreak of diseases in UK in the near future, Asylum Seekers in UK should be allowed to access free medical treatment while in UK, and not only on emergency because while in UK and there is an earthquake (which most of us witnessed yesterday) it affect all in our society irrespective of colour, background, age group, location, language, ethnic group, religion or status etc.

I must say that in as much as people are refused Asylum and in one way or the other they are still in UK they should be allowed a free medical treatment to save lives first for humanity as well as enable a check in spread of numerous diseases across UK. Asylum Seekers are human beings like everyone of us, is only that they are being subjected to the name Asylum Seekers because they came to UK to seek asylum, most of whom are experts and specialists in their field of profession. Due to the conditions they found themselves "Asylum seekers" they subjected to living a pauperish lively hood because they can’t afford many things in UK. Their impoverished situation, malnutrition, and fear of the unknown i.e. fear of been grabbed by the Home office (dawn raid) detained / deported back to the country where they fled persecution have inadvertently subjected them to fear which leads to low selfesteem, psyicological effects and could aggravate aggression in many cases.

Support those involve in this campign : To be continued.

Thanks Comments needed

Kenzo

email: ken9098057@aol.co.uk

Last week I went with my family to the Karen people's New Year celebrations - 2747 according to their calendar, at Abbeydale Grange school. The little girl pictured above in traditional Karen costume was one of the dancers who performed in front of a packed audience, which must have been over 300 people - and all of us were fed with a hot meal of spring rolls, chicken and rice dishes.

The Karen people are refugees from Burma, whose villages are regularly attacked by the military junta, and who are forbidden to speak their language or practice their culture in their own country. Sheffield's Karen community lived for many years in jungle refugee camps on the Thai border, with no prospect of a safe return to Burma, until Sheffield agreed to welcome them through the UN Gateway Protection Programme.

What impressed me most about the celebrations was the enormous efforts that the Karen community are making to build relationships with local people - to tell their stories and share their culture, and to invite people to get to know them. They also spoke about the welcome they had received in Sheffield, and how much it means to them to be able to live in freedom, for the first time in their lives.

They also had the most beautiful hand-made skirts, jackets and bags for sale, to support their people in Thailand. If there are any entrepreneurs out there with a fashion business, Karen clothing could be a big opportunity... (I bought clothes for both my children and a bag for my wife, and I'm not usually known as an impulsive buyer.)

UK Asylum system and its procedures is a mental torture, war of the mind, dejection, keeping a fellow human being at a very low self-esteem, being treated like an animals, This brings me to the Does and done of the Asylum seeker:

NOT ALLOWED TO WORK:
GIVEN A TEMPORAL SHELTER:
NOT ALLOWED TO EDUCATIONALL SORTS:
EXPECTED NOT TO AWAY FROM HIS TEMPORAL ACCOMODATION 7 DAYS
NO BANK ACCOUNTS
GIVEN FEEDING MONEY
SIGNS AT THE POLICE STATION ONCE EVERY WEEK OR EVERY MONTH
etc

+ Failed Asylum seeker:
FACED WITH DEPORTATION
IF ON SECTION 4 GIVEN VOUCHERS TO SHOP FOR FOOD
GIVEN EMERGENCY TEMPORAL ACCOMODATION
GETTING HIM/HER READY TO BE DEPORTED
etc

A lot of us in UK thinks solely that an Asylum seeker is an economic migrant who do not wish to work and earn a lively hood and that an Asylum seekers is one who wants to recourse solely to the state money But this is not true: many Asylum seekers are educated, experts in various fields: Note that UK was one of the countries that initiated, partook and signed the United Nation Geneva Convention 1951 protection of Human Right. Yet today the reverse is the case, they now fight reject, people feeling from persecution etc in the name of its Political Hippocritic blamed on UK Immigration policies.

I will like to use this wonderful opportunity to thank all the Charity Organizations in UK either working with Asylum or in every area of human endeavours for putting smiles occasionally to thousands of Asylum Seekers + failed Asylum seeker in UK. God in his infinite mercies will bless you all abundance, God will protect you and your generations to come, I want to let you all know that your time, treasure, and ideas you impact to Asylum seekers life’s has help humanity.

To be continued:
By: Kenzo email: ken9098057@aol.com Contact me for any questions.

A man, woman or child who fled/smuggled out of his country to another getting into UK, with little knowledge about the culture, language, the environment, haven no place to lay head for the night, a person who has no relations, family, friends in UK, Truthfully, submits his/herself to the Home Office (Immigration)with pure heart, without resorting to the street destitution, he is being screened, fingerprinted, treated like a wild snake/lion/ on loose many a times thrown into a detention center for deportation to the same country where he or she fled from.

A horrified person, without faith, is been labeled Asylum Seeker, haven been rushed through the new Asylum model, that is his Asylum claim treated within 3 months if unsuccessful will face deportation after 6 months, A person whom have not evidence with little or no knowledge of English language fails his Asylum Claims, Out of desperation, he may remain underground in UK without shelter, sleeping rough on the street some times on a phone booth or train stations or wandering about beside a night club or pub till the next morning, a daily routine faced with destitution, feeding from one place to another, wearing one cloths everyday in so many cases he/she is been subjected sex trade, and illegal working etc.

Scared of what his future is might join gangsters, rubbery, mixing up with extremists, the thought that the BIA is made of British people as workers, make the desperate man hate the British, because he is been turned down with his Asylum claim the Ideology of extremist comes in to play a major role on this, yet terrorist activities is growing, However, there are many product of destitution which are: Extremism, Robbery, Frauds, gangsterism, Gun crimes, Rapes, Abuse, False economy, No respect, Forgeries, Dirty environment, Illness/diseases, Depression, Mental disorder, Psychological problems Poverty, lies, cheatings, name it is a whole bunch of do or die affair. Thanks
To be continued:
By: Kenzo email: ken9098057@aol.com Contact me for any questions.

Hi ... In this world there are many many kind of jobs, some of theme need a hand, some of theme need a head, some of theme need a money.... etc.
But there is job need a heart and the smile to do it however the help and friendly,and this is the most best job you can do it "make the other people smile and feeling they are human and they have right to live and have normal nice life like any one here in this earth".
I hope one day I can get job like that and I will be so hapy if it here in Sheffield .

Hello ... Today I will make my point view on our self " the asylum seeker " . Is there any thing we should we do it ? the answer is YES. there are many things we can and we should do it together.
We most SHOW ALL OUR RESPECT to the people, law, land, reilgions, cultures and animels too ... If we like to do something we have been doing befor in our home we should take care of the others if it make any harmful to them and the thinking in other peoples give the responsibility to humanration however we dont want to requite the freedom in hardness.
I know and im sure all the asylum are tired, sad, maissing someone, afried and felling homeless but this dosent give us tha right to be harmful to the others .
By the smiles on the faces and showing some respect with kiend of help we will win all the hearts.

The very Economic reasons greed and selfish quest of the Westerners which led Britain to support, spearhead and even implement bi-lateral regulations on the illicit, inhuman, malicious, barbaric, trade in humans termed slavery which has degraded, and disenchanted the black race image and her entire mentality.This race no longer have what it takes to get organized why? because the westerners have made it so by labeling it dark continent, and reap continuously further into the African soil and all its potentials, imposing a view that Africa is a third World country underdeveloped. Yet the westerner preys on its soil to develop its own land.

There is a saying which goes “that if a fish does not swallow another fish it will not grow” yet today in the 21st century the Africans asylum seeker is treated like a dangerous snake which should be killed by anybody even when the dangerous snake is in labour. Yet in our schools today in Britain, geography has erased the topic / subject teaching to its pupils of where the natural resources are been acquired, rather they teach the pupil about Britain being among the world power, without informing them that Britain has no crude oil, which without aero planes, cars even most of our so called steel companies would not be operational today.

Britain claims members of the common wealth where it has no wealth rather an exploiter of wealth, what a shame to the very country that colonized1/3 or the World earth. By mere mention of the black community we all think of hostility, poverty, crimes, theft, murder, rape and even economic migrants, this view has been imposed on the black race in all its entirety. Britain statistics states that majority of mentally health patience are of black race. The population of UK is 6.2Million the black race is only below 12,000 the number of asylum refusal of the black Africans is on the increase. Lots of black people are on the street without an identity covered in inferiority complex which leads them to crime without undermining the consequence as they prefer to be in prison getting shelter etc rather than being on the streets, yet the Government believes that recent gun crimes in London where carried out by kids with single motherhood rather its treatment to the black asylum seekers.

This amongst other numerous reasons has inadvertently affected the most minority black race. (To be continued) your comment needed.
(ken9098057@aol.co.uk) written by Mr.U. Kenzo 2007
( Freelance writer/Activist)