Systems Consultant, Knowing (Kenya) Limited

Edwin is a web and systems developer based in Nairobi. He has had many years of experience working in the website development industry in Kenya, working on such websites as www.kenya-airways.com, www.stockskenya.com, and many others. He has also developed systems for many other companies in the region, such as banks, stock brokers, manufacturing companies, and more. He was introduced to ZanaA by a friend, and was moved by ZanaA's vision, and volunteered to help with the website. He feels that this is one of the ways through which he can make a contribution to this great work.

Communications, Partnership and Participation Section of UNICEF Kenya
ZanaA Advisory Board Team Leader, Fundraising

Julie Mwabe has done a lot in only 24 years, and is currently volunteering with ZanaA full time as she prepares for her next adventure. For the last three years she has been in the Communication, Partnership and Participation Section of UNICEF Kenya, where her primary role was to identify individuals and communities with personal development and human interest stories that needed to be told, and working together with local and international journalists to bring them into the news while fulfilling UNICEF’s mandate in the region: to help women and children access quality healthcare, education, equality and protection. This has also included those infected and affected by HIV and AIDS.

As such, Julie has been exposed to the vast issues women and children face, from malnutrion to female circumcision, across Kenya. This has made Julie passionate about finding simple and affordable solutions for marginalised communities in Africa. She believes that because she has seen, she is therefore responsible to be part of the solution because "Faith without deed is dead". She says, “Once you see the faces of these children starving or girls who are discriminated against because they are menstruating- there is no way I can just sit and do nothing about it. Something has to be done....and it starts with me.”

Julie prefers to remain behind the scene by assisting with fundraising strategies for ZanaAfrica and was the first member of the Kenya Advisory Board, spearheading the Fundraising Team. She subsequently  joined the Board of Directors. 

Julie has a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience and Psychology from the University of Otago in New Zealand and has now embarked in September for a Masters in International Journalism with a focus in documentary film making at Cardiff University in Wales. As such, she is our ambassador in the UK.