Personal Narrative: My Work As An Activist

Course: New Media Writing/Publishing

My work as an activist involves advocacy, research and implementation of community projects that are targeted towards the groups I advocate for, who are: Women, the youth, children and minority groups that are marginalized. Most of the work I do among these groups are informed by research and active involvement in groups that already exist in the community or ones that I have founded myself. The issues I am mostly involved in are for women, the improvement of their status relative to men; for children and the youth, it is education, community involvement, leadership, responsible citizenship and relations between men and women. To deliver to these groups, I do a lot of writing which is both fiction and non-fiction.

My work whether presented as articles on blogs, novels, newspaper features, in newsletters or social network, seek to do one or all of the above. One of my long stories Almost There is based on the genocide that took place in Rwanda in 1993. It took me about a year back in 1998 to write the story based on the information I had, but it to took me since then until now to put into it adequate information because in those years it was very difficult for me to get all the information I needed to write an authentic story. The story is targeted towards women involved in conflict and living in war zones. It is about two women from the two warring tribes in Rwanda. These women find themselves caught up in a war they did not know was about to erupt and in circumstances in which they are totally helpless. Because they have been friends since childhood, the anger and hatred stirred by the genocide is kept at bay while they choose to survive. Depending on each other, they walk out of the war, not unscathed but determined to change their country, its politics and relationships between men and women with regards to conflict and social life in

There I share with Americans things that some never know are happening in this country. I share the details of the lives of immigrants, the struggles and the high hopes and possibilities of achieving them. On this blog, I talk about the American dream. The dream many now do not think exists and that it is denied certain people. I write about it to share my struggles and leave a trail of whether, how or if that dream is attainable. This is almost like a diary. It is replicated on tumbler, a podium which I believe is mostly for