Strategy Meeting with Josephat Nyamwaya

On Saturday, I had a meeting with Josephat Nyamwaya courtesy of Mary Sanyu Osire. The meeting was very helpful in that he gave me some ideas about where the youth should complete their community service hours. 

Given that Nairobi is filled with technocrats, he suggested that perhaps we look to organizations outside of Nairobi for better use of the students' limited skill set and to address more of a need for the organization(s) that may host them. 

We are setting a meeting in Ngong, just outside of Nairobi, to see if we can find just the organization to facilitate this. Meanwhile, Mr. Nyamwaya and Mary Sanyu have also put me in touch with a couple of similar organizations in Nairobi to join their network and see what we can learn from their experience regarding youth voluntourism and way forward for TWO Hands. 

It was very nice meeting with Mr. Nyamwaya. He seemed very understanding of the organization’s purpose and had this to say, “ I really enjoy the idea of young people solving their own problems  and impacting their communities while at it”. I look forward to working with him. 

We should go to Ngong some time next week.  I am very excited!