This blog started life in 2007 as our Chairman’s Blog (Bob’s Blog) to chart a journal of his trek to the summit of Mount Kenya to raise money for Vision Africa. A trek which was incredibly sucessfull in achieving it’s objectives and was great fun to participate in. All the history of the trek is still buried in the blog archive if you want to take a peek – starting in June 2007.
Since the conclusion of the trek Bob has kept the blog going with occasional thoughts and updates about issues concerning him as Chairman of the charity which we hope you find interesting. Now with the migration of the blog from the Blogger platform to our own server we have opened the blog up to other members of Vision Africa staff to bring you more diversity of thought and, hopefully, more frequent postings.
Staff Bloggers
Bob Dowty
Bob is Chairman of Vision Africa. Based in Watford in the UK he volunteers for Vision Africa in his spare time. His day job is working for BT Global Services as a senior manager. Interests include Gliding at London Gliding Club, Music (playing Guitar in church) and web design and development. Bob has been Chairman of Vision Africa since the charity started in 2001.
Deborah Kimathi
Deborah is Kenya Field Director and works full time for Vision Africa. She joined us in 2002 and was the inspiration and driving force behind our Seed of Hope vocational training programme for teenage girls. In her role as Field Director she is incredibly busy as she has responsibility for all aspects of the running of Vision Africa in Kenya.
Kirsty McLullich
Kirsty is a full time volunteer with Vision Africa. Based in Nairobi she leads on fundraising activities and communications - keeping everyone up-to-date on Facebook and Twitter, as well as posting many of our news articles. Kirsty has been with us since 2006 and has built up a special relationship with the Kibera Mpira Mtaani team and Kandara Children’s home, where she lived when she first joined us.
Chris Ross
Chris is Secretary of Vision Africa in the UK. Based in Scotland, Chris has been with Vision Africa since it started operating in 2001. He has the special distinction of being Deborah Kimathi’s father! He has also had some experience of raising money for Vision Africa by taking part in our ‘Zambezi River Challenge’ where he raised a fair bit of money by paddling 100km down hippo and croc infested waters!
Special Guest Blogger: Rebecca Stanfield
Rebecca is a guest blogger with Vision Africa. In 2008 and again in 2009 she was a volunteer working with us in Kenya. Rebecca is really committed to helping Vision Africa and has now set herself the challenge of raising money to support our work.
In June 2010 she will be climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and has kindly offered to provide updates on the blog of her journey. So, watch this space!
Please note that views expressed in this Blog are the views of the individual poster and are not necessarily to be construed as Vision Africa policy or position.
