PASSION – EMPOWERMENT:

Passion and Empowerment are two different words that totally compliment each other in terms of how they can be related.

One way to relate Passion to Empowerment is in terms of looking at who are dis- empowered?
In order to empower, there has got to be a group that is dis- empowered, this can be in terms of politics, a political group, youth – in terms of thinking the youth are irrelevant people who can not bring about any kind of social change, or maybe the Women, in terms of belonging and high power – like jobs, fields of work etc.

So one way to connect passion to empowerment is: Having the Passion to empower a certain group of people that are dis empowered, the youth, the women, a certain political group etc.

we can also connect empowerment with passion: Empowering a group of people for example the youth to start using social media as a way of communication, empowering them to blog, tweet, use face book to mention but a few can be derived from the passion one has about these social media channels.
“I can not empower someone to do something that I have no passion about.”

PASSION – CURIOSITY:

Simply put, with passion, comes curiosity, and this can be seen with the kind of work that each one does if they are passionate about it.

Joseph Gatheeha Wanyoike for instance works with Kibera News Network and is so passionate about his job that it leads him to ask a lot of questions to the youth around Kibera in their involvements, why they involve in drug abuse, why they face the challenges they face.... so because there is a passionate man behind the work, it drives their curiosity to find out more about why things happen the way they do.

My work for instance involves getting as many women much involved in the ICT sector as there are men because I feel women are marginalized, so because this is a passion I have, it drives me to pry more of curiosity to find out why the situation is for instance the way it is. What the different stereotypes are, and why women do not want to enroll for science courses..... its the passion that drives my curiosity.

When one is curious about something, it drives them to want to know more about that thing, and the more you ask, the more you get a deeper in-sight, which is ultimately the passion that drives you.

So in one sentence: Using our curiosity to find out more about what affects the community through the passion that we hold in the work that we do.

PASSION – THE DISPOSSESSED – HOPE:

There are many societies or groups of people that are dispossessed. Dispossession can be looked at in terms of not being so privileged maybe? Being in a society that does not have much, maybe no Internet, no fibre optic channels, no security networks, no good road access networks, etc....

But how do we look at this in a positive sense and say, it is not more about being dispossessed, but it is how we can use what we have as a community to bring about some sort of HOPE that we can do better things even in these situations, and we can think of ways of turning these negatives into an ultimate positive. This is where the HOPE aspect comes from.

A lot of people don't have HOPE in the youth for example, or in a group of people that are dispossessed, so trying to bring this kind of HOPE that things can be better using the PASSION one has, can bring about a transformational social change.

In a nutshell: Fulfillment sometimes doesn't come from how much you have financially, materially etc, but in how you can be able to use the little you have to instill HOPE that even in the DISPOSESSED position or situation, things can ultimately get better and this can only be achieved when one has the PASSION that drives them to bring about some social change.