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Janerose Apindi

Janerose is a trained Community Health Volunteer, a counsellor, and a farmer. She joined the Sega health volunteer team in 1988 and is currently responsible for 134 households, going door-to-door with health education and support aimed at preventing common illnesses.
Jane has worked on projects with goal4.org since 2011, joining the Advisory Board in 2022.

She has worked with various health based organizations in her capacity as a Community Health Volunteer. She’s participated in outreach programs that aim to eradicate HIV/AIDS transmission, has taught family planning, and has educated the public on basic hygiene practices.
Her desire to see her community advance drives her to champion and lead various social groups in Sega that empower both men and women economically and socially.

Janerose spearheads goal4.org Mothers’ Education women’s group that continues the role of teaching families basic skills for keeping their children safe and healthy. Under her guidance, the group supports its members financially through loans, table banking, and farming projects.

Her hopes for her community are to see the upgrade of Sega Dispensary to a 24 hour Health Center, to see the community embrace health education and develop proactive health-seeking behaviors, and to see a healthier and more productive community where members collaborate for the common good.

Monica Odongo

Monica Akinyi Odongo is the head of Sega’s public health facility, Sega Dispensary. She is a registered nurse whose broad responsibilities at the Dispensary include administration of the facility, managing the staff, and treating patients.
Prior to joining Sega Dispensary, she managed a newly built Dispensary in rural Masasia where she built a team of staff and volunteers and oversaw furnishing and equipping the facility all while treating patients and carrying out her administrative duties. During her time at Masasia Dispensary, she successfully managed the laborious process of getting electricity installed and built a working relationship with the community that became a model in the region. Members of other community health units came to Masasia Dispensary to observe and learn.
Monica is passionate about maternal and child health and helping others. She was a volunteer social worker with the organization Children First and tutored fellow students at Maseno Nursing School.
Monica graduated from Murang’a Kenya Medical Training College with a diploma in Community Health Nursing.
Her hopes for Sega are to help complete the transition of the Dispensary to a 24 hour health center, to see Sega’s community groups continue their strong advocacy for the facility, and for individual community members to enhance their lives and health by making use of the health services that the facility offers.

Terry Omondi

Terry is employed by the County of Siaya as the nurse in charge of Sega Dispensary, the only public health facility in Sega. She manages the operations and staff, coordinates all services, and sees patients. Prior to coming to Sega Dispensary, she worked at the Bar Ndege Dispensary, a small but dynamic health facility in the region that gained a reputation for offering excellent maternity services. Before Bar Ndege, she worked as a pediatric nurse at the Mombasa Hospital and at Nyali Children’s Hospital.
Beyond the duties of her day job, Terry engages in other social benefit activities. In Sega, she is working to build and maintain a link between the community and the health facility through a network of Community Health Workers. In the past, she has served as Secretary of the Staff Welfare Association, the team leader of Emergency Services, and as a mentor in a Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) program.
Terry has a special passion for Maternal and Child Health and has dreamed of seeing a fully furnished Maternity Wing and a well-equipped Laboratory at Sega Dispensary – a dream that is becoming a reality in 2021. With these two things, not only will women be able to give birth safely but the entire community will have access to affordable health services closer to their homes.
Terry hopes to see a healthier community that will embrace positive, health-seeking behavior and use available resources to improve their health.
Terry holds a Diploma in Nursing from St. Elizabeth Hospital Mukumu and a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from Great Lakes University of Kisumu.

Moses Onyango

Moses is a Professional Administrator with experience in Human Resource Management, Finance Management, and Employee Mentorship. He was the Administrator and Human Resource Manager at Matibabu Foundation, an organization that has been a partner of goal4.org since 2012. Under his leadership, Matibabu Foundation Hospital was recognized as having the best Health Commodity Management System in the County for two consecutive years. Prior to Matibabu, Moses was the Finance Manager at Kenya Rural Enterprise (K-Rep), a microfinance development organization that works to make financial services accessible to low-income people.
Moses has a passion for community work, mentorship, and grass-roots development. He has been engaged in initiatives such as human rights advocacy, children’s education, supporting orphans and vulnerable children, and financial empowerment for local communities.
He is currently self-employed, running his own business while offering business consulting services. He is also serving his community as a spiritual leader, holding the position of a Senior Pastor in a local church.
Moses holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration with IT (Finance) from Maseno University and KTC II from Kaimosi Friends College.

Bramwel Wesonga

Bramwel is a Senior Clinical Officer and Nutritionist with more than 10 years of practice. He is currently the head clinician at St Paul’s Methodist Hospital in Ugunja, a town neighboring Sega.
Prior to that, Bramwel was the head Clinical Officer at Sega Mission Hospital and the lead clinician of the Kenya AIDS Response Program. Under his leadership, the hospital improved its service efficiency and significantly increased the number of patients who came for service. Both improvements lead to the hospital being given a government upgrade from a level 2 Dispensary to a level 3 Health Center.
Like many enterprising and socially-minded Kenyans, Bramwel has multiple jobs. He is the founder and Managing Director of Home Pearl Hospital – Sega, a small private health facility that offers a range of medical services. He is also the founder of Cristal Heart Foundation, a nonprofit that helps orphans, vulnerable children, and their caregivers.
Bramwel holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Food Nutrition and Dietetics from the Kenyatta University, a Diploma in Clinical Medicine and Surgery from the Kenya Medical Training College, and a certification in HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment.

Carla Tibble

Carla is a retired teacher with 40 years of teaching experience. She started her teaching career in a parochial school in Flint, Michigan in 1971. When her husband was transferred to a different state, Carla worked as a home economist for Wisconsin Electric. In the corporate setting, she refined a set of skills that she took back to the classroom when she re-entered teaching two years later.
In addition to teaching the standard curriculum, Carla worked with students in Speech and Debate who were headed to some of the finest universities and also taught life skills and parenting to students who were socially and educationally challenged.
Recognizing that all students thrive when given a challenge, she developed a class called Senior Seminar which included research, internship and presentations in coordination with community members. Seniors were able to experience many of the challenges of college prior to graduation.
Carla ended up specializing in health education which included human sexuality. There she developed an affinity for underserved populations. Her interest was piqued when her son spent time in Kenya working with young men through a University Notre Dame exchange.
Carla holds a bachelor’s degree in Speech and Drama with a minor in Home Economics from Albion College. Her Master Degree from Eastern Michigan is in Health Education. She is also vocationally certified and has teaching credentials in human sexuality.

Hezbon Ochieng Randa

Hezbon was born and raised in Sega. He is a high school teacher and livestock farmer. He began teaching English and Literature at Sega Girls High School in 2004 and today heads the Language Department. In addition to a demanding job and raising a young family, he has taken on many community service roles. He has served as Secretary of the Sega Community Development Program, a body that oversees all of the projects in Sega, and was a pioneer board member of the Sega Dispensary Management Committee, whose challenging job was to ensure that the Dispensary – the only public health facility in Sega – was built and started functioning.
In addition to his participation on goal4.org Advisory Board, Hezbon is the co-editor of Beta Bells, a magazine about the issues and opportunities for education in Kenya, and is a member of the Siaya County scholarship award committee. Through his efforts, many needy students have gotten scholarships.
Hezbon received a Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature and History from Kenyatta University, a Post Graduate Diploma in Education from Maseno University, and a Masters of Education in Sociology and Policy Studies from Kenyatta University.
His hope for his community is for accelerated progress toward better education for Sega’s children and better healthcare for all of Sega’s citizens.

Emilly Onyango Atieno

Emilly was born and raised in western Kenya, in a region not far from Sega. She is a teacher and a farmer. Teaching for 27 years, she started in the classroom in 1986 and now holds the position of head teacher at Ugambe primary school. In 2012 she returned to college to get a diploma in Special Needs Education so she could be more effective in helping children with disabilities and other special needs. The loss of her husband left Emily in the socially and economically vulnerable position of a widow in rural Kenya. In 2015, she founded and now leads the Sega Widows Group, a community-based organization dedicated to widows supporting each other, and also, to helping orphans and abused children in the community. The group is currently raising funds to create and run a rescue center where Sega’s orphans and abused children can live, learn, and be cared for.
Emilly received her teaching diploma in 1986 from Saint Mark Kigari Teachers College and a diploma in Special Needs Education in 2014 from the Kenya Institute of Special Education.
Her hopes for Sega are to see the issues of drug use and alcoholism release their grip on the youth and to build a community where people are self-reliant and healthy.

Caroline Ogutu

Caroline is Community Health Worker and farmer. Her community health work is a volunteer role where she serves as an interface between her neighbors and the health system. She is responsible for about 100 households, going door-to-door with health education and support that’s aimed at preventing the most common illnesses. She supplements her farm earnings with stipends she receives for work on short-term health projects such as family planning and an alert system that reminds mothers of prenatal and postnatal appointments.
Caroline is a skilled community mobilizer and teen mentor. She is particularly interested in working with adolescent girls, helping them navigate the challenges of health, education, and developing into strong, compassionate, and successful women. She has worked on projects with goal4.org since 2011, joining the Advisory Board in 2017. She works with the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops as a teen mentor and is a member of two women’s savings groups that provide small loans to members and pool savings to invest in a group-owned poultry business.
Caroline’s hopes for Sega are broad and clear. She hopes that Sega’s public health facility will offer a greater range of services at affordable prices, that rural schools receive the resources to offer education that is on par with urban areas, that the issues of maternal health and HIV/AIDS awareness be taken seriously and reach everyone, and that better farming strategies are taught and made available so that food production can be increased and hunger reduced.

Salome Ogutu

Salome is Community Health Worker and farmer. Her community health work is a volunteer role where she serves as an interface between her neighbors and the health system. She is responsible for about 100 households, going door-to-door with health education and support that’s aimed at preventing the most common illnesses. She is also often employed by local organizations on projects such as family planning, home-based HIV counseling and testing, and the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of AIDS.
Salome is a community organizer, a trusted influencer, and confident spokesperson for maternal and child health. She has worked on projects with goal4.org since 2011, joining the Advisory Board in 2017. She is a member of the Sega Community Development Program, a body that oversees all of the projects in Sega, a member of the Nyamosmos Women’s Group that cares for orphans and carries out community farming projects, and a member of two women’s microfinance groups.
Her dream is to see a day where the women of Sega having a maternity facility where they can give birth safely – an affordable, high-quality facility that has advanced, life-saving services like ultrasound.

Rabin Nyaori Awandu

Rabin is the nursing officer in charge Sega Dispensary, the only public (free) health facility in Sega. He manages the facility, coordinates all health services, sees patients, and is responsible for community health. He was recruited to Sega to help develop and grow the Dispensary’s maternity service, including promoting the service to mothers in the community. In his past job, at a similar small, rural dispensary, he did just that – improved the maternity services and influenced a shift in the number of women who give birth at the health facility rather than at home. He is a skilled mentor, manager, and communicator.

Rabin holds a diploma in Community Health Nursing and Midwifery. He continues to improve his knowledge and skills at every opportunity, attending health training seminars whenever they are offered.

His dream is to play a leading role in developing high-quality healthcare services in the region that are available to everyone, regardless of their ability to pay.

Gabriel Odipo Randiga

Gabriel was born and raised in western Kenya, in a region not far from Sega. He is a farmer and entrepreneur. He spent his career in accounting, working for a number of companies including Isuzu and General Motors. Throughout his career, with his savings, he bought land and built rental houses to supplement his income and ensure that his children could get a good education. When he retired in 1988, he founded Gabmar Agencies, a company that supplies furniture to Kenyan colleges. He continues today as the Managing Director of the company.
In addition to his participation on the goal4.org Advisory Board, Gabriel is an active member of the Sega Community Development Program, a body that oversees all of the projects in Sega. His passions center on youth and health. He dedicates time to raising funds to help young people further their studies, and has served as the Vice Chairperson of the Sega Dispensary Management Committee.
Gabriel hopes for a future where Sega’s youth have better education and more opportunities and Sega’s medical facility can offer the entire community quality medical services.

Dismus Onyango Othoth

Dismas is a dairy farmer and respected elder with a passion for community development. In his early career, he was a printer for the government press and a church teacher. After becoming a qualified printer, he supervised the printing department at the Kenya Bureau of Standards until he retired in 2005. During that time, he had the pleasure of attending a seminar and world exhibition of printing in Dusseldorf, Germany. Always an active leader in the community, he has served as the chair of multiple welfare organizations, the Sega Township Primary School, the Sega Community Development Program, and several church based groups. Today, he continues his community work, sits on the goal4.org Advisory Board, and is the director of Watemie Investments, a co-operative that assists members through saving, investments and group purchasing power.
Dismus received his diploma in printing from Kenya Polytechnic Institute in 1979.
His hopes for the community: to become more economically self-reliant – with more opportunity for families to earn, save, educate each child, and feed each family member. His dream is for Sega to be a place where everyone has their basic needs met for a life of health and peace.

Albert Okoth Oluoch

Albert has worked in education throughout his professional career. He began as a classroom teacher, later rose to the position of headmaster, then Approved Graduate Teacher. He went on to become an inspector of schools in Uganda and Kenya. He was born and raised in western Kenya where now, in retirement, he dedicates his time and skills to supporting local schools and community organizations.

Albert received his diploma in Education from Kijabe College and has attended professional training in human resource management. In addition to his participation on the goal4.org Advisory Board, he is a member of several other boards and community organizations.

His greatest hopes are to improve the quality of education for students in rural areas like Sega and the quality of health services for all members of the community.

Thadeus Okello Odhiambo

Thadeus was born and raised Sega. He has been a farmer all of his life and until becoming Assistant Chief in 1995, he was a self-employed carpenter. Today, his work centers on reducing poverty and creating a better future for his community. He is an advocate for programs that support farmers through education, improved farming techniques, and access to supplies. He promotes the formation of community groups who, by working together, can become more self-reliant. And he is an outspoken champion of women and children’s health. Beyond the borders of Sega, he collaborates with administrators from other communities to ensure the success of cross-community development projects.
Thadeus is involved with many community organizations. In addition to his participation on the goal4.org Advisory Board, he leads the Sega Community Development Program, a body that oversees all of the projects in Sega; he is a member of the Kupa Women’s Group that supports orphans and vulnerable children with funds raised through a soy bean processing service; he is engaged with the One Acre Fund project that teaches farmers new farming techniques and provides resources like seeds and fertilizers; and many more.
His dream for Sega is to eliminate poverty and grow literacy.

Nick Hargreaves Onyango

Nick is a software developer with Beyonic, a financial technology company that provides an online system to allow organizations to make bulk payments to employees in remote areas using mobile banking. Prior to Beyonic, he developed web and mobile applications for CodeForAfrica, Open Institute, and Code4Kenya. Nick has received numerous awards for his innovative work. He was a finalist in the Google Apps Challenge, a winner of Ericsson’s Apps for African City Life award, a recipient of the Young Innovators Fellowship, awarded at the World ITU conference in Geneva, Switzerland, and the winner of Best Mobile Application in the Kipokezi Hackathon Challenge.
Nick was born and raised in the western region of Kenya where goal4.org works. He attended Moi University where he studied chemical engineering.
Nick founded and runs 501code.org, a non-profit that connects tech-savvy volunteers to non-profits. In his spare time, he studies and experiments with artificial intelligence.

Colm Pelow

Colm is a technical project manager on Google’s robotics team. Throughout his career, he has specialized in large-scale, multi-national telecommunications projects, in both the non-profit and for-profit sectors. At Inveneo, a non-profit social enterprise that delivers low-powered networks to rural Africa, Colm participated in the post-earthquake response effort in Haiti, supporting the field team as they set up emergency communications for first-responders in the field. Prior to a decade managing non-profit projects, Colm managed global telecommunications projects for Ericsson in Ireland, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Botswana, Macau, Canada, and the USA. He helped establish Ericsson’s US presence, building the technical support organization and managing the build-out of Ericsson’s US network.
Colm holds a degree in Mathematics & Electronics from Kevin Street College of Technology in Dublin, Ireland.
He is a member of the Rotary Club in San Francisco, serves on the board of Blue Water Foundation, and is a leader and trainer for the Scout Association of Ireland.

Dr. Jacqueline Clavo-Hall

Jacqueline is an assistant professor at Touro University California School of Nursing where she teaches graduate courses on nursing leadership, evidence-based practice & informatics, healthcare policy and ethics, epidemiology, and population statistics. Prior to arriving at the school of nursing, she worked 24 years as a nurse anesthetist at Highland Hospital in Oakland and Kaiser Permanente.
Jacqueline is passionate about the profession of nursing and its potential impact on doing good. She holds a Ph.D. in Nursing Science and Health Care Leadership, a Juris Doctorate degree, a Master of Science in Health Informatics, a Master of Science in Nurse Anesthesia, and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
Jacqueline led a collaboration with a local school district, pairing nursing students as mentors and role models to high school students in the health academies. She served on the board of directors of the California Association of Nurse Anesthetists where she advocated on both the state and national levels for improved patient safety and increased access to high-quality patient care.

Dr. Ann Stoltz

Ann is the director of the School of Nursing at Touro University California and was the architect of the degree program at the newly opened school before stepping in as the administrator. Her passion to help vulnerable populations was solidified through serving as a county public health nurse and a school nurse before moving into nursing education at Sacramento State University. There, Ann’s teaching expanded to leadership roles where she was instrumental in creating new nursing programs and helped lead the planning and fundraising for a new state-of- the art facility for the nursing school.
Ann holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, a Master of Science in Nursing and Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
In her community, Ann developed and supervises a nurse-run health clinic at local “feed the hungry” dinners. She has served the nursing profession for years, having held roles as president of the California Association of Colleges of Nursing, chair of the Coalition of School Nurse Educators, and chair of the Association of California Nurse Leader’s Leadership Committee.

Piper Gianola

Piper is the founder and executive director of goal4.org. She was a communications professional in the high tech industry for 15 years, the last 11 years at Cisco Systems. Her retirement in 2011 marked a long-planned transition from the private sector to the non-profit sector. Since 2011 she has been developing and overseeing goal4.org projects in Kenya and working as a consultant to non-profit organizations in the US. In 2001, she co-founded Winters Broadband, a wireless internet service provider that continues to deliver broadband to the rural, central valley of California today. Prior to her move into corporate communications, Piper was a linguist and educator with a specialty in intercultural communications. She held roles as a lecturer at U.C. Berkeley, the director of an adult language school, and as a language instructor in the United States and Switzerland.
Piper holds a Master of Arts in Linguistics, a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences, and a Diplôme d’études Françaises from the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

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