Kibera Leadership
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Henry Tini Oyatsi
Health Services Manager
Dr. Henry is the Manager of Health Services at SHOFCO’s clinic. He believes that being a doctor is his calling. His mother was a nurse and the most influential person in his life. She would bring him to health clinics with her and helped develop his interest in health care. Henry saw suffering and grew to believe that he could help sick people. Dr. Henry has worked in numerous health facilities, both under the government and in the private sector. For Henry, the best part of the job is seeing patients, especially children, become healthy. Outside of the clinic Henry likes to read philosophy and history; he also enjoys sports such as martial arts and hiking. Henry’s dream is to see SHOFCO spread throughout slums in Kenya and beyond, bringing a message of hope for girls and women. He also hopes to see true development in Kibera and would love if the government took a vested interest in Kibera residents by building affordable and safe housing.
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Bernard Maticha
Community Programs Manager
Bernard is Shining Hope’s Community Programs Manager. He has a diploma in social work and certificates in programs management, program facilitations, and training of trainers. He is passionate about working with communities and helping a community figure out how to best help itself. Bernard loves to work directly with community members. He also enjoys soccer, watching movies, and listening to music. Bernard hopes that in the next five to ten years SHOFCO will be able to even better address the needs of the immediate community and can grow to help all of Kibera.
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George Okewa
Community Relations Manager
In Kibera, George is a well-known and respected community organizer and activist. After graduating from high school, George continued to educate himself, despite his families’ inability to afford further education. He attended seminars in community health, organizing, and development. He has organized around issues of labor injustice, unemployment, and the government’s denial of services to the people of Kibera. In 2004, George began working with Kennedy Odede to help start a grassroots organization founded and run by the people of Kibera. George has since led slum-wide sanitation and anti-violence campaigns. In 2006 George founded Kibera’s own grass-roots security organization to protect and serve residents, as the police do not work inside the slum. George’s work has received widespread acclaim, even attracting the attention of Prime Minister Raila Odinga. George believes that the uplift of women is central to changing Kenyan society and the lives of all people in Kibera. He also believes that for such change to take place men and women must work together for equality, education, and justice. He lives in Kibera with his wife and two children.
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Peter Okoth
Operations Manager
Peter is Shining Hope’s Operations Manager; he oversees much of what goes on with the organization and makes sure that everything runs smoothly. Peter has a serious love for computers and technology and takes it upon himself to be Shining Hope’s resident IT tech. Peter started at Shining Hope as a youth coordinator and acted as the link between Kibera youth and Shining Hope management. Peter excelled in this leadership position and proved what an asset he is to the organization. Being the Operations Manager at Shining Hope is a dream come true for Peter, as he’s always wanted to work with computers. Peter obviously loves the electronic side of his job but also immensely enjoys working with the Kibera community. He hopes to see Shining Hope become one of the biggest organizations in Kibera, providing quality education and healthcare to the community at large. He would also love to see Kibera be able to offer its residents what’s available in the rest of the country: a healthy environment with good options for education.
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Ann Olwande
Headmistress
Ann is the Headmistress of the Kibera School for Girls. She holds a Bachelor of Education with a focus on math and sciences. She has previously worked in a secondary school and so working at Kibera School for Girls, a primary school, has been a change. According to Ann, working at KSG has helped her to become more patient and understanding and less of a perfectionist. She says spending time with small innocent children, who tend to forget things, has humbled her. Ann spends most of her time on the management side but loves when she can teach. She enjoys teaching young children of different levels and the challenge it can present. Besides teaching, Ann loves swimming (though she finds it can be too cold in Nairobi!), singing and dancing, traveling to new places, and hiking. Ann has large dreams for SHOFCO. She believes in the impact the organization can have and wants that impact to be practical and far-reaching. She wants to see SHOFCO really affect the community genuinely in a way everyone recognizes and personally experiences. She hopes that KSG students will all be made even more incredible because of SHOFCO; she dreams that they will all recognize how SHOFCO helped them and continue to give back to their communities.
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Lydiah Salome
Finance and Human Resources Manager
Lydiah is the Finance and Human Resources Manager for Shining Hope. She received training through a Kenyan accounting course and is a CPA. Lydiah chose to pursue accounting because she loves working with figures and dealing with logic. Her favorite part of the job is balancing budgets and knowing that she has accounted for everything. Besides dealing with numbers, Lydiah enjoys music and playing games. She hopes for SHOFCO to become an international organization and hopes for the Kibera community to be in a position where they can sustain themselves and reduce their own poverty.
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Antony Odhiambo
Stock and Maintenance Manager
Antony works as the Manager of Stock and Maintenance for Shining Hope. He received a diploma in Supplies and Management and loves his job. Antony says he has a passion for controlling the stock and demonstrates that daily. The best part of this job, Antony says, is when Shining Hope receives new goods for him to organize. In his spare time he enjoys watching movies and listening to music. Antony hopes that his services will always satisfy Shining Hope and the Kibera community.