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About 1 in every 4 boys in Kenya is unfathered, underfathered or misfathered.

Growing up without a father or a father-figure causes a boy to feel unappreciated, unloved and unprotected. Therefore, they become more vulnerable to juvenile delinquency, gender based violence, sexual assault, bullying, crime and conflict. They also become prone to dropping out of school, lacking an appetite for life or lacking respect for their mothers or the authority.

Through my work, I help create an ideal environment where boys become more aware of who they really are. Together as a co-partners, I’m the catalyst that helps to remind boys and young men of the infinite treasure they possess. When I was being interviewed for a TV Production job, which I wasn’t qualified for, I said that life becomes a beautiful lifesong.

This wasn’t the case when I was growing up.

Having grown up without a father and failed to find a father-figure, I am therefore a living testimony of the challenges that boys face while growing up without a father.

I came to Nairobi aged 27 after dropping out of college after two unsuccessful attempts. Two years later, I got arrested and spent 8 days in police custody where a middle-aged man said that I looked like I had grown up with a father. This made me reflect about my life, past and future goals. I decided to apply for a job as a TV Producer, which I didn’t have the courage to do until I was 32 years old!

Finding My Lifesong

For the first time in my life, I was enjoying my life. I was working with school children in a job that I dreamt of one day having when I was a little boy. Then in 2012, I visited Nairobi Remand Prison where I met 100 male youth and saw a reflection of myself in them. I quit my job and started working with youth who are going though trauma, stigma and rejection.

This is what I have been doing for the past 10 years and I enjoy working with boys and young men. When I tell boys and young men ‘You have infinite treasure’, I’m speaking from my own experience.

In 2021, I had an opportunity to receive a full scholarship from the Co-Active Training Institute to learn life coaching. I absolutely believe in the power of life coaching. I have witnessed the profound effects that life coaching has had on my clients as well as in my own life.

Fun facts about me

  • I sold off an acoustic guitar I had received as a gift to pay house rent
  • I use the word ‘actually’ in my sentences a lot
  • Shrimps is my favourite dish and I can eat it with rice, bread or even just like that
  • My obsession with justice has earned me a lot of enemies
  • I designed an album cover but never had the courage to become a recording artist
  • I believe that boys deserve a second chance, have more care, empathy and compassion than most people imagine or give them enough credit
  • My dream holiday destination is Beaufort, South Carolina where I can grow a beard, dreadlocks and sing shalalala lala while fishing shrimps the whole day
  • My dream cycling and hiking destination is Sardinia, an Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea 
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