The appointment of Jeffrey Okoro as CFK Africa’s Executive Director was featured in an article on CEO transitions in The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
CFK Africa announced it has hired Jeffrey Oduro Okoro to be its fifth executive director since its founding in 2001.
Frankline Kaburia, a nutritionist from CFK Africa, explains that they are conducting screenings to identify malnourished children in the area.
“The social and economic consequences of inadequate water and sanitation services are generally devastating. Without these critical services, people fall ill, children miss out on learning, especially girls, and entire communities can be displaced by water scarcity,” said Eddah Ogogo, a primary healthcare coordinator at CFK Africa.
CFK Africa seeks a dynamic Executive Director who can take CFK to the next level with expansion in informal settlements in East Africa. Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director (ED) will have overall strategic, fundraising and operational responsibility for CFK Africa’s staff, programs, expansion, and execution of its mission.
CFK Africa’s Interim Director of Strategic Initiatives, Jeffrey Okoro, spoke with VOA News about CFK Africa’s partnership with MIT to improve educational outcomes among students living in Kenya’s informal settlements.
Selected as one of 10 global partners for the Leveraging Evidence for Action to Promote Change (LEAP) program, CFK Africa and MIT researchers will work together to increase the rate of primary school graduation among students in informal settlements.
CFK Africa Executive Director, Hillary Omala, was quoted in Pulse News about an upsurge in cholera cases in 2022.
CFK Africa was selected as a 2022 Triangle Business Journal Corporate Philanthropy Award winner for its work in public health and education.
After marking its 20th anniversary of transformative initiatives in Kibera, CFK Africa began expanding into 25 informal settlements in Kenya.
CFK Africa is a registered NGO in Kenya and 501(c)(3) nonprofit in the U.S. that improves public health and economic prosperity in informal settlements through participatory research, primary health care, and education.
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