Lack of guidance in our community

[uglybrother]

I don't know about you folks, but I noticed that us Somalis don't care much and thus rarely get involved in our children's upbringing. I think we should volunteer and estabslish community owned facilities to instill both secular and islamic education into our kids from the get go. Most of the times, I see kids that have never attended school or dugsi and the dude is a 6ft 14 years old with some chin beard just coming out and they want him to learn quran. I know it is never too late, but better sooner than later. Isn't it too late then? I say if you can volunteer, please do and tutor kids around your area. Teach them, help them with their homeworks and if you have got diin knowledge pass that on. I am thinking of this idea, and I don't know if I should try it. I notice most Somali kids in my area between the ages of 5-12 are seldom active in sports. These kids spend more than half of their day in school and the rest of the time video games. I have cousins that are 11, one who is 7 and another 5 and these kids have never kicked a ball or shot a basketball! So I was thinking of recruiting young kids and kind like coaching them in soccer. What do you guys think?

[Methylamine]

something like this?

[The_Patriot]

Good idea and you will get ajir out of it.

The only way we can make a difference is to contribute to our communities positively.
Times up for arguing over petty qabil issues that have no substance.

[uglybrother]

something like this?

YES! Plus it will keep them occupied. You know people only go wild and do drugs when they have got time to think.

[uglybrother]

Good idea and you will get ajir out of it.

The only way we can make a difference is to contribute to our communities positively.
Times up for arguing over petty qabil issues that have no substance.

Yes, time to bring positivity to the table as negativity has been shown relentlessly.

[Methylamine]

uglybrother, these kind of programs should extend into Somalis in their late teens and early twenties. That way they won't get lured into the haram game.

[uglybrother]

uglybrother, these kind of programs should extend into Somalis in their late teens and early twenties. That way they won't get lured into the haram game.

You're right. One is never enough for shaytan's deceptive whispers. But, once you're an adult aren't you in a better position to assess your choices? I think so. If a 20 year old decides to do drugs and drop out of school, then he did it out of arrogance not out of ignorance. On the contrary, a 14 year old kid can't decide shyt! It's that a stage where they have so many questions and so little answers, they are confused as F and can do anything out of stupidity and lack of mental capacity to judge and decide logically.

[The_Patriot]

Good idea and you will get ajir out of it.

The only way we can make a difference is to contribute to our communities positively.
Times up for arguing over petty qabil issues that have no substance.

Yes, time to bring positivity to the table as negativity has been shown relentlessly.

I have seen alot of possitive steps carried out by some folks mashaalah

Gone are the days folks would open a charity in the name of the community and would be used to fatten individual pockets.

[934]

Good idea and you will get ajir out of it.

The only way we can make a difference is to contribute to our communities positively.
Times up for arguing over petty qabil issues that have no substance.

Yes, time to bring positivity to the table as negativity has been shown relentlessly.

I have seen alot of possitive steps carried out by some folks mashaalah

Gone are the days folks would open a charity in the name of the community and would be used to fatten individual pockets.

Thats what you think. In London it hasn't changed that much and local communities have turned to a family business ventures. The clan based communities are also still around.

but Alhamdulilah there are also those that have the interest of the community at heart.

[ahmedbrant]

My advice would be to set up a program where school kids are mentored by somali university students. Particularly kids from bad schools.
I took part in a program like this but it was for black kids in general. We had some really good results and i got the kids i was mentoring from a position where they weren't sure about going to university to saying i definitely wanne study in uni.

[globetrotter2]

Two things can help us
1) Less children; as things are today, more kids mean more money in welfare benefits and less incentive to work
2) Somalis should practice as they preach ; as things are today, somali families are characterised by double standards; kids are told to become good muslims, taken to quranic schools etc while the parents engage in unislamic endeavours: Islam has become a dress code and a discourse

[934]

Two things can help us
1) Less children; as things are today, more kids mean more money in welfare benefits and less incentive to work
2) Somalis should practice as they preach ; as things are today, somali families are characterised by double standards; kids are told to become good muslims, taken to quranic schools etc while the parents engage in unislamic endeavours: Islam has become a dress code and a discourse

How so true.

[globetrotter2]

934,
So how many kids do you have? are you still "married" to their father? Or you still get pregnant and call him boyfriend to rip the welfare system?

[AhmedBoqor]

We can talk the talk all we want but at the end of the day, its all about how we walk it.

Good for the Somalis in this forum that are already involved in making the communities better .Inshallah I plan to volunteer this school year.

[WiglessBidaar]

934,
So how many kids do you have? are you still "married" to their father? Or you still get pregnant and call him boyfriend to rip the welfare system?

Iyaa! Is the keyboard artist 934 a woman? I thought she was a man. Wareer badana.

Can the flight thirteeners please make plain their genders. Starting with you Globe, do you possess a nine inch ladypoker, or something a bit more feminine?