Members Voices
Everyday We are Planting New Dreams
In Jamii Bora we plant new dreams in our members every day. A member that is on her way out of poverty will inspire and encourage those who have not started the climb yet.
The staff in Jamii Bora are recruited from the membership. They are the most determined and enthusiastic members, the best students in our Business Academy, and the best mobilisers. Our staff and members constantly plant new dreams and assure members:
- that it does not matter where you come from, what matters is where you are going
- that a poor person has nothing to lose except her poverty
Our successful members are the best in planting new dreams in the members. They know that it is possible to get out of poverty, because they have done it themselves. They are the mentors, planting new dreams in others and giving them hope.
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Claris Adhiambo used to live on the streets a beggar. Now she has become the "Queen of the Fish Market".
Read about her struggle and success.
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Wilson Maina is a handsome young man with an infectious smile, admired by many in Mathare Valley - the slum where he lives. Before he joined Jamii Bora, poverty had reduced him to living a life of crime. Find out how he turned himself around.
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Joyce Wairimu lost everything she owned to tribal violence in 1992. Her businesses now employ 45 people.
Read her story here.
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Dedan Ireri was a street beggar as a child and teenager. Now, he is representing Kenya in the last paralympic preparatory international competion in preparation for the Paralympics in China next year. Read his inspirational story.
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Beatrice Ngendo is a single grandmother raising 12 grandchildren in the Mathare Valley slum. Her children and their spouses have died in AIDS. She now
has three successful businesses in Mathare Valley: a grocery store, butchery, a restaurant and a stone house which allows her to rent out rooms.
Read her courageous story.
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Katana Gona Kizuka is nearly 70 years old, but still very energetic. He turned to Jamii Bora in a time of need and used his loan on calculated business risk; a new breed of dairy cow. Find out how his risk paid off.
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