- Directors Spring Meeting to go over Vision for Kenya’s strategy for the year;
- Vision for Kenya was one of the four finalists in a grant application for $14,000 from Valparaiso University Student led organization SALT. SALT is The Social Action Leadership Team (SALT) a social justice ministry. Students in SALT serve as the leadership team that invites Valpo students to engage in Christian service both near and far. SALT is involved in local volunteering, spring break service trips and church-based community organizing
- Executive Director Jacob Sitati while in Kenya was invited by AIC Githumu Hospital a Mission Hospital established to provide affordable and sustainable, holistic, quality health care services to review their strategic plan and potentially help them in sourcing equipment for their hospital.
- Consideration is underway to support a youth project led by Samuel Ollunga, titled MDG Inc. It is a program that advances and engages in the realization of the Millennium Development Goals as well as helping ordinary people and communities across the world achieve their aims of obtaining and enhancing their source of livelihood and business enterprises towards greater wellbeing and socio-economic fulfillment.
- Planned Directors Meeting Scheduled for November 2011 to review current project progress and determine future projects for the organization.
The spring board meeting was held at the end of February with a focus on finalizing on the strategy document expalaining Vision's policy goals for the organization. Fund raisng efforts for shipment of equipment was also discussed with a goal of finalizing on the fundraising goals and efforts.
Finally, it was decided that planning should go ahead for the shipment of a small quantity of the equipment required to ensure the organizational processes in place are efficient and can deliver before planning on larger shipments.
Summer 2009
(May to September)
Fordam Wara, an Attorney, was voted in as a director to serve on the Board of Vision for Kenya;
Jacob Sitati, Executive Director, came back from a 5 week trip to Kenya, where he met with the Lugulu hospital management team and various government stakeholders who will play a role in the facilitation process of equipment donated to the hospital;
Fall 2009
Vision for Kenya in collaboration with Monaco Youth Group USA and the
African Students Club at North Park University host the annual Chicago
Marathon dinner with elite athletes.
Directors Board meeting planned in October to discuss fundraising for the shipment of equipment solicited.
Sharon
Kibwana Yvonne
Mbatia Jacob
Sitati Martin
Mbaya Fordam
Wara We are a group of five friends. Born and raised in Kenya, we all went through the primary and high school education system in Kenya before coming to the United States for college education. Currently, we are working in the United States in the following areas: law, public health, and public policy. We came up with the concept of Vision for Kenya, after numerous consultations and brainstorming sessions. The idea is based on having an ultimate goal of giving back to the under privileged within the marginalized communities in the Kenyan society, by leveraging our positions here in the United States. Vision For Kenya, NFP provides an avenue and vehicle through which we can successfully achieve our intended goal for the rural community.