Your family – dear reader – learned to walk in Kenya. We have to go back in history though, two and a half million years to be correct. That’s when it all started with the walking and the talking (Imagine our forefathers sitting there on the savanna: “Okay guys, we have two options: We can either [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Nairobi’
A weekend in Nairobi? Why not indeed
Posted in News from Africa, tagged Brew Bistro, Cool stuff, Java Coffee House, Karen Blixen Museum, Kawangware, Kibera, Nairobi, The National Museum, Village Market on February 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Go visit, meet the staff!
Posted in News from Africa, tagged Nairobi, Staff, MYC4, Eric Naivasha, Titus Kuria, Faith Wambua on January 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
If you are a MYC4 investor or a wannabe or just plain interested in the world of finance – be it micro or otherwise – and if you happen to be in Nairobi, why not grab the opportunity to visit MYC4s office in the tranquil neighborhood of Kilimani, a mere 10-20-30 minute car ride from the [...]
Your whole business in a file cabinet
Posted in Borrower Testimonials, tagged Kenya, Nairobi, Growth Africa, MYC4, medicine, pharmaceuticals, testimonial, Sofben Ethicals on November 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What do you get when you put together a woman whose education is in computers and a man who’s into electronics? You get a pharmaceutical business! Anyway, that’s what happened when John and Hilda Wanjohi joined forces and created Sofben Ethicals. I visit Sofben Ethicals in its tiny office downtown Nairobi. It’s Mrs. Wanjohi who [...]
Good news for social investors: Health care loans coming up
Posted in News, News from Africa, Uncategorized, tagged clinics, health care, hospitals, kayole hospital, livewell, Nairobi on February 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
- From what you have seen, do you think you can do something for us? Grace Kamero eagerly leans forward in her chair, when she realizes who her visitors are. Grace Kamero is operational manager at Kayole Hospital in Nairobi, and MYC4 is visiting because health care is about to be of bigger interest to [...]
3 Shillings to go to the loo! – Decent?
Posted in News from Africa, Uncategorized, tagged Africa, housing, low cost housing, makao mashinani, Nairobi, slum, stanty towns on February 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Late January MYC4 signed the contract with its newest partner, Makao Mashinani, a pioneer in low cost housing in Kenya. Makao Mashinani has a clear vision: “a society where all poor people have acces to decent shelter”. As Aleke Dondo, the companys MD put it: It’s a human right. It doesn’t take long to realize that [...]
What can MYC4 and partners do for each other?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged capacity building, cooperation, Nairobi, partner conference on February 1, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Talk the walk or walk the talk? That’s the question, and there is really no reason to spend three days holed up in a (very nice!) hotel and talk and babble if nothing comes out of it. So what did come out of the conference in Nairobi Jan. 27th – 29th? It’s still early to [...]
Partner Conference in Nairobi
Posted in News, News from Africa, Uncategorized, tagged Africa, Nairobi, partner conference on January 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
MYC4 hosted a partner conference in Nairobi, Kenya from January 27th – 29th. The theme of the conference was “partnering for growth”. All of MYC4s partners were invited to present themselves and share their views. Actually “sharing” was one of the buzz words on the conference: Sharing knowledge, experiences, information , risk etc. The [...]
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