MCCJEX

A VISIT TO THE PRIZON

2009-10-19T08:20:00.000-07:00

2009-09-21T06:21:00.000-07:00

Name: Vincent Omondi O.
Age: 22 years
Gender: Male
Nationality: Kenyan
Religion: Christian
Cell: 0728548725
Mail:vinmcjex25@yahoo.com /vinmcjex@gmail.com
P.O.BOX: 17382 Nakuru Kenya

I am a music artist member volunteering with an Organization known as REPACTED-KENYA which is a youth serving organisation based at the Nakuru players theatre dealing with issues concerning health such as HIV/AIDS awareness and behaviour change among the community members in the society. Here I use my music to effect change among the youths and the community at large.

I was born and raised in Nakuru in a family of eleven and started my primary education in class four in the year in the 1998 in the same town. We later moved to Molo where after clearing my primary school in 2004.
In my life, Education and Music is all I ever wanted, but unfortunately due to financial constraints I dropped out of school and since then I have been pursuing music whole heartedly because music is my passion. I have chosen music because through it I can express my self and open mind to reach out to a wide audience. Though my father tried his best I eventually I had to give way to my elder brothers who was in high school at the time.

I had started my music performing in school activities. In 2005 I had to find ways to make ends meet doing odd jobs here and the there and put together some money while helping my parents and later moved to Nairobi to look for a job and I landed myself on a building construction job (Mjengo) in Makadara. LaterI incurred injuries in the construction and I was forced to move back to Molo.

In 2008 after the post election violence observed in the year 2007 I was evicted from my home and went to Nakuru as an IDP and became apart time volunteer with RED CROSS. It was during this time that I recorded my first single Rejesho (Restoration). Its here that I met with James Karongo (REPACTED member)who was also a Red Cross volunteer at the Nakuru Afraha Stadium IDPs camp in who invited me to REPACTED Kenya’s offices for a performance in a peace concert. Then I was introduced to the group co coordinator who was quit impressed with my zeal to pass educative message through my music prompting him to recruit me as a group member. I have participated in their magnet theatre outreaches on reproductive health doing mobilization that involves singing and dancing. Last year I was involved actively counselling and guiding rappers on the OPEN MIC FESTIVAL whose aim was to find a musician who could freestyle on positive messages in the community. We also formed a dance troupe that titled SAWWA DANCERS under the umbrella of REPACTED KENYA and have performed on various stages like the MISS RED RIBBON and RED CROOSS PEACE CONCERT, CCK {Communication Commission of Kenya} road shows. I have dedicated my music to educate about peace and reconciliation, health and the things that affects the community in their daily life. I have recorded several tracks where by two talks more about PEACE, LOVE and UNITY while two talks about health (drug abuse, early marriages, HIV/AIDS, and behaviour change among the youths) and the remaining are gospel.

In the five years that I have been in the music industry my greatest challenge has been getting my music out to the society and selling my album Rejesho. In getting my music to the community I have always sought a forum to expose my talent. You have organised seminars and shows in the past that have been a great success and have mobilized people who have appreciated the ministry and the good news. I would love to be part of a ministry that is using the same tool as i to reach out to youths and greater audience in which if they like they would in turn buy my music. It’s because of this reason that I reached out to you. I would appreciate any form of feed back in this issue.thank you so much

2009-09-21T05:50:00.000-07:00

Name: Vincent Omondi O.
Age: 22 years
Gender: Male
Nationality: Kenyan
Religion: Christian
Cell: 0728548725
Mail:vinmcjex25@yahoo.com /vinmcjex@gmail.com
P.O.BOX: 17382 Nakuru Kenya

I am a music artist member volunteering with an Organization known as REPACTED-KENYA which is a youth serving organization based at the Nakuru players theater dealing with issues concerning health such as HIV/AIDS awareness and behavior change among the community members in the society. Here I use my music to effect change among the youths and the community at large.

I was born and raised in Nakuru in a family of eleven and started my primary education in class four in the year in the 1998 in the same town. We later moved to Molo where after clearing my primary school in 2004.
In my life, Education and Music is all I ever wanted, but unfortunately due to financial constraints I dropped out of school and since then I have been pursuing music whole heartedly because music is my passion. I have chosen music because through it I can express my self and open mind to reach out to a wide audience. Though my father tried his best I eventually I had to give way to my elder brothers who was in high school at the time.

I had started my music performing in school activities. In 2005 I had to find ways to make ends meet doing odd jobs here and the there and put together some money while helping my parents and later moved to Nairobi to look for a job and I landed myself on a building construction job (Mjengo) in Makadara. later i incurred injuries in the construction and I was forced to move back to Molo.

In 2008 after the post election violence observed in the year 2007 I was evicted from my home and went to Nakuru as an IDP and became apart time volunteer with RED CROSS. It was during this time that I recorded my first single Rejesho (Restoration). Its here that I met with James Karongo (REPACTED member)who was also a Red Cross volunteer at the Nakuru Afraha Stadium IDPs camp in who invited me to REPACTED Kenya’s offices for a performance in a peace concert. Then I was introduced to the group co coordinator who was quit impressed with my zeal to pass educative message through my music prompting him to recruit me as a group member. I have participated in their magnet theater outreaches on reproductive health doing mobilization that involves singing and dancing. Last year I was involved actively counseling and guiding rappers on the OPEN MIC FESTIVAL whose aim was to find a musician who could freestyle on positive messages in the community. We also formed a dance troupe that titled SAWWA DANCERS under the umbrella of REPACTED KENYA and have performed on various stages like the MISS RED RIBBON and RED CROSS PEACE CONCERT, CCK {Communication Commission of Kenya} road shows. I have dedicated my music to educate about peace and reconciliation, health and the things that affects the community in their daily life. I have recorded several tracks where by two talks more about PEACE, LOVE and UNITY while two talks about health (drug abuse, early marriages, HIV/AIDS, and behavior change among the youths) and the remaining are gospel.

In the five years that I have been in the music industry my greatest challenge has been getting my music out to the society and selling my album Rejesho. In getting my music to the community I have always sought a forum to expose my talent. You have organized seminars and shows in the past that have been a great success and have mobilized people who have appreciated the ministry and the good news. I would love to be part of a ministry that is using the same tool as i to reach out to youths and greater audience in which if they like they would in turn buy my music. It’s because of this reason that I reached out to you. I would appreciate any form of feed back in this issue.thank you so much

2009 OPEN MIC FINALS

2009-04-08T00:27:00.000-07:00

Open mic is an activity oganized yearly and ran by REPACTED fanded by APHIA11 RIFT VELLEY.Its whereby we use young talented underground artists in the community to spread the gospel about health.Impotance of going to health fercilities,HIV/AIDs a wererness,behaviour change,TB and etc.This year REPACKED had seven sites where this outreaches took place.In each given sites, we selected three representatives artist who was to represent his or her home area in the finals.After the first ran up the selected artists were involved in a training where they were taught more things about health issues.This were topics they were going to freestyle on.The final was held at a place known as Kaptembwo in NAKURU down town.
The event was one of the biggest ever happened.The judges had a had work to do since the rap game between the artists was tight.The competitance were twenty one strougling to be number one.It was enjoyerble and amusing.After the freestyle copetition ,the day was closed by perfomances from the SAWWA DANCERS ,MC JEx,then closed by our guest artist PILIPILI.

MUSIC MY PASSION

2009-03-30T00:21:00.000-07:00

REPACTED is my home,a place to exprese my self,a place to show what you can do the best.Since I joined this youth Oganization ,i've come across good things that I have been dreaming off.The big events that I use to admirer while other big artists performs ,is where I found my self nowdays.
The picture shows MC JEx's image performing his peace song titled" pamoja" that means togetherness at Nyoyo garden in Nakuru town.
You know what ?I love music.Music is my life and music is my everything.In our Oganizationr,I use music to mobilize the community in magnet theatre.

2009-03-27T06:27:00.000-07:00

Harambee Stars are the real bomb.I predict 5 gaols for 2.in the between KENYA and TUNISIA. Mc Jex wishing our team the best.Whos againts this?

condom in school

2009-01-11T23:36:00.000-08:00

The current generation that is existin now in Kenya is that that we call the early testing.This is a big issue that is burning up in Primary and Secondary schools in Kenya. Boys andGirls are now playing the game that we used to say 'the game played by matured people'.
Sex in school is high that now days its more played than any other games in the field.Youths between 7 to 20 years know it better than any other person.Cases are heard now and then,that two girls were send away because of pregnancy or was found having sex in school compound.A case like this once happened in the school that i was learning.No single girl or boy is found without relationship.Towards this, i think condom should be distributed in schools or education concerning this should be offered in school.

LONG JOURNEY TO REPACTED

2008-12-16T04:23:00.000-08:00

Back in 2003 we used to reside in Lanet in Nakuru town, life was fine and we were an ordinary family of twelve facing the usual challenges. My Father, a chef by profession, applied for a job at the Highland Hotel in Molo and was hired. After sorting things out and tying up loose ends by around August 2003, we packed up and moved to Molo to live with him.
I went to school there along with my brothers and sisters, made friends and generally built a life around the town. Apart from the land disputes that kept coming up and still do to this day everything was peaceful. People of different tribes lived side by side with common courtesy and friendship. My best friend was John Ngige, a Kikuyu and we used to do everything together and shared the same dreams. He too was an MC and loved rap and dance. We were part of a youth group called Squash it led by Francesca Kisira and also part time Red Cross volunteers.
The years went by and 2007 came along with the campaigns and election fever. During the campaigns the Orange Democratic Party (ODM) promised equitable distribution of resources through devolution. Their opponents the Party of National Unity (PNU) claimed that it meant Majimbo a system in which people would be chased back to the native regions. It was a campaign gimmick since PNU had the same thing in their manifesto but most people took it to be gospel truth. Still, there was no violence and despite the debate people were friendly and enjoyed a good laugh at the end of everything. There was a universal craving for change in the political landscape.
People woke up early to vote on the 27th of December, it was my first time to do so and had to travel to Rhodah in Nakuru town to cast my ballot. I was also a polling agent for a PNU parliamentary candidate in Molo although I was an ODM supporter. The exercise went smoothly and there were no incidences of violence. Things started going south when the tallying was delayed for days. Suspicion ran high when the Molo constituency ODM candidate was declared winner but the media stated that it was only a provisional result and the final tally would come from Nairobi at the Electoral Commission Headquarters.
Tension was high and there were rumors that in the outskirts of town skirmishes had broken out between ODM and PNU supporters, namely the Kalenjin and the Kikuyu tribes and their sympathizers. The first Internally Displaced People (IDPs) started arriving in Molo on the 29th of December, and we, as Red Cross volunteers, were called to action. On the 30th of December Mwai Kibaki, the incumbent and PNU presidential candidate was declared winner under acrimonious circumstances with claims of widespread of rigging and vote fraud rife and loud and was hurriedly sworn in. PNU supporters celebrated for around an hour in and around town and businesses belonging to ODM supporters were looted or destroyed.
That night in the entire country was plunged into a sea of violence. I was worried since Molo is a small town and I had to watch over my siblings since my parents had traveled up country to vote. I am a Luo by tribe and we were known to have been in the ODM camp. A vast majority of Molo IDPs and Molo residents were Kikuyu and PNU stalwarts. In January, ODM friendly tribes were flushed out of their houses and told to leave and since we could not be move to the Molo IDP camp we were transported to Nakuru. We took shelter at my elder sister’s house in Rhodah. Those who didn’t have family in the town were put in the new camp at the Afraha Stadium.
Late January violence flared up in Nakuru, I went to the Nakuru Red Cross branch to offer my help. Somewhere along the way I was accosted by a rag tag band of about twenty youth who asked me about my tribe and almost attacked me but after produced my volunteer kit they let me go. I was dispatched to the Stadium where I worked in the night shift. That was where I met REPACTED members James Karongo, Lawrence Mwai and Rolland Lusioli. Eventually a peace deal was reached and the violence and tension came to an end. REPACTED had a function at Menengai Secondary school about peace and reconciliation and I was invited to perform my song titled Rejesho (restoration). Afterwards I was called to the side by Collins Oduor and Dennis Kimambo and given an envelope which contained a monetary reward for my efforts which surprised and pleased me since I had never been paid for a performance in the past. I then got to know more about REPACTED and eventually got to join as a full time member.

STREET FAMILIES

2008-11-27T02:43:00.000-08:00

Due to poverty, diseases, violence and mistreatment, the number of loitering young girls and boys is increasing. This makes it hard to walk in the streets in terms of security where theft cases are heard now and then. Our own brothers and sisters are starving in towns going through difficulties while there are women and men out there filling their bellies with the funds raised to help get the so called chokoras out of the streets.
Even though several organisations and individuals have built homes for street families, many such children are still wndering around in major towns and have become a menace.
Post election violence increased their population in various towns like in my province Rift valley which was the most affected. Most street children no longer go to school and this is a barrier to the free education initiative. Many children are now being used to sell merchandise along the streets.Kenya will fall to the losing side if something is not done about it.

MR AND MISS RED RIBBON

2008-11-27T02:37:00.000-08:00

Miss Red Ribbon is a charity event organized annually by Nakuru Youth groups among them REPACTED KENYA and The VOICE OF ROSES. Its a major build up activity towards World Aids Day. The event aims at eradicating stigma and discrimination associated with HIV/AIDS. It shall be held on 29th of November at one of the best Hotels in Nakuru called Bontana Hotel as from 2.00pm to 8.00pm.
All are invited to this event .There will be entertainment from SAWWA DANCERS from REPACTED,Songs from the VOICE OF ROSES , a dance for life ,and also live music from MCC JEX,Beauty Pageant and many more.
By doing this it will help to empower marginalized women to be the best they can. Its is also away of bringing people together as one to show love to the people living with HIV.

CHANGE THROUGH MUSIC

2008-11-12T00:37:00.000-08:00

During one of our magnet theatre outreaches at the Nakuru men’s prison I met a man by the name of Cedric aka MC Sly Shy who was an artiste on remand. He was impressed with what I doing and he informed me that he was into rap and hip hop and he had written a lot of songs behind bars. We exchanged ideas and I told him to look me up once he got out. Upon the quashing of his case on 16th of October, he came to our offices and we are now working on a song about drugs called Hadi Lini which means Till When in Swahili. He wants to pass messages that can inspire behavior change in the youth of today. It was through the groups activities that I met MC Sly and I believe there are many others with talent that can be utilized.

Two weeks ago, in October 21st at the Nakuru Players theater where our base of operations is situated I ran into Moses a recovering drug addict. His father had sent him to me since he was interested in music. He had caused a lot of trouble whenever he was left idle and there was always the risk of a relapse if he wasn’t kept busy. We have been hanging out with him and his parents have noticed a slight change in his attitude. Presently we are composing a song and we are planning to produce and market it so that he can become independent since he has been reduced to child status by his addiction. If our dream comes true he can be able to earn money and help his family with some extra income. Through music, I've realise, that I have been able to assist many people change their lives.

DRUNKARDNESS CAN LOWER YOUR DIGNITY

2008-09-17T02:59:00.000-07:00

Recently during the last months holyday Jane and her colleagues from suburb were out for a night.
As they were busting a move on the dance floor when one of her buddies felt a guy come up behind her and started grinding his front on her back.
like normal the dance went for while before she turned around to see the nature of the guy whether he was cute and the right man to have a dance with.
Alas!!what she saw was embarrassment to all of them. When she caught a glimpse of the dude, she was startled to see that it was her biological father who was in town on vacation. He was really drunkard he kept right on dancing and touching her body carelessly. To make the matter worse he started putting the moves on all the girls and tried to get each to dirty dances. Disgusted, she rounded up her posse and made her exit without bothering her safety out there .You can imagine the risk!! A girl leaving the club at 1:00 am walking her way home embarrassed and ashamed before her alleys.
Her father noticed nothing that day. He drunk and drunk messing around with women ;young and old, spending his money while his dear family needs money for education, medication, clothing and daily meal.
The next day Jane didn’t look her father in the eye once nor neither her friend because of the shame she went through. That’s some of the bad effect, embarrassment and risk people go after excessive drinking. There’s a huge risk here, the father might have sex with women he had in the bar without a condom protection or if he put the condom he might put it wrongly or use it wrongly. If this happened the wife is at risk. So you men out there if it’s a must you drink take it responsibly.

Hi.

2008-09-17T02:42:00.002-07:00

Ma name is Vincent Omondi: Maximum.Creativity.To.Climax.Jive.Exhorbitant.Dream.Fighter.Hustler.(MCC JEX DFH)
I'm a member of Repacted Kenya.I'm a performing artiste and I'm good in music and composer.I speak about social issues and the gospels, I've recorded some of my works touching on peace and another about drug and substance abuse.My aim in life is to educate the youth on the truth about the facts of life.