Dear Friends,
I must start on a sad note. I was in Alego Boro yesterday for the burial of Francis Awuor Kizito. Mr. Kizito was a Member of Kimisho- Busia Branch and he had died in a road accident in Yala the other week.
May the good Lord rest his soul in eternal peace.
In 2009, I was brave enough to initiate The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign.
We hosted our 1st ever event in Komarock in September of the same year and then invited several partners to this. We then launched this as a Monthly initiative with the City Council of Nairobi on the 18th September 2010 at Eastleigh.
This was then launched across the whole country with tremendous success and partnership. We partnered with many Councils and I a now very happy that our Governors have seen that we must all join hands in managing our waste.
This is the way to go. We can now relax at The Clean Kenya Campaign-TCKC and offer strategic advice where necessary. Time for noise making is over. We did enough of that and now, we are seeing the results.
Who does not know what role we at KCDN and TCKC have played in this arena? And who does not know who our Partners in this Great Journey of Hope across Kenya were? I hence want to salute all our Partners- Friends and Institutions that have made this journey enjoyable and I must make mention of the following Partners;
We have moved on and formed a Sacco Society for our Members, and again, I am happy that we are setting the trend. Kimisho Sacco Society Ltd has been well received across the Country and we are happy with the partnerships that we are getting.
I also know one thing; success never comes easy.
If you look at the history of Professor Mohammad Yunus of Grameen Bank, you will find that he faced challenges and even out right opposition from journeymen and charlatans. But he never minded them.
They tried scaring away members and still, he soldiered on.
When we were forming Kimisho, we were very alive to these facts. We knew that amongst us we have very bitter people, but we also knew that the vast majority of our people believed in us and in what we were saying and doing.
This is why we have never wavered. Our eyes are fixed on the success story we are creating and we are heading there with our Members.
We are open to all Kenyans for Registration as Members and as a Team, we have set our own rules and all our Members have agreed to these.
We are happy that our Members believe that we can all do it as a Team, and I will remain focused and trained on the work a head.
Lastly, the coming days are going to be very interesting for us at Kimisho. Watch this space and keep us in good company.
Odhiambo T Oketch,
Team Leader and Executive Director,
KCDN, KSSL, KICL,
Tel; +254 724 365 557,
Email; kimishodevelopment@gmail.com, komarockswatch@yahoo.com
BlogSpot; http:kcdnkomarockswatch.blogspot.com
I must start on a sad note. I was in Alego Boro yesterday for the burial of Francis Awuor Kizito. Mr. Kizito was a Member of Kimisho- Busia Branch and he had died in a road accident in Yala the other week.
May the good Lord rest his soul in eternal peace.
In 2009, I was brave enough to initiate The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign.
We hosted our 1st ever event in Komarock in September of the same year and then invited several partners to this. We then launched this as a Monthly initiative with the City Council of Nairobi on the 18th September 2010 at Eastleigh.
This was then launched across the whole country with tremendous success and partnership. We partnered with many Councils and I a now very happy that our Governors have seen that we must all join hands in managing our waste.
This is the way to go. We can now relax at The Clean Kenya Campaign-TCKC and offer strategic advice where necessary. Time for noise making is over. We did enough of that and now, we are seeing the results.
Who does not know what role we at KCDN and TCKC have played in this arena? And who does not know who our Partners in this Great Journey of Hope across Kenya were? I hence want to salute all our Partners- Friends and Institutions that have made this journey enjoyable and I must make mention of the following Partners;
- The Public Service Transformation Department,
- Akiba Uhaki Foudation,
- A Better World/SOFDI,
- The Provincial Administrtion
- National Environmental Management Authority,
- The various County Governments,
- The various Ministries whom we have worked with,
- Africa Youth Trust and her Partners,
- Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, and
- All those Friends and Partners listed in our Web and Blog Pages.
We have moved on and formed a Sacco Society for our Members, and again, I am happy that we are setting the trend. Kimisho Sacco Society Ltd has been well received across the Country and we are happy with the partnerships that we are getting.
I also know one thing; success never comes easy.
If you look at the history of Professor Mohammad Yunus of Grameen Bank, you will find that he faced challenges and even out right opposition from journeymen and charlatans. But he never minded them.
They tried scaring away members and still, he soldiered on.
When we were forming Kimisho, we were very alive to these facts. We knew that amongst us we have very bitter people, but we also knew that the vast majority of our people believed in us and in what we were saying and doing.
This is why we have never wavered. Our eyes are fixed on the success story we are creating and we are heading there with our Members.
We are open to all Kenyans for Registration as Members and as a Team, we have set our own rules and all our Members have agreed to these.
We are happy that our Members believe that we can all do it as a Team, and I will remain focused and trained on the work a head.
Lastly, the coming days are going to be very interesting for us at Kimisho. Watch this space and keep us in good company.
Odhiambo T Oketch,
Team Leader and Executive Director,
KCDN, KSSL, KICL,
Tel; +254 724 365 557,
Email; kimishodevelopment@gmail.com, komarockswatch@yahoo.com
BlogSpot; http:kcdnkomarockswatch.blogspot.com
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