Mr. John Mwaniki

Mr. John Mwaniki

Coordinator, ACK KAMATAKIMO, Kenya

John Mwaniki works for ACK Kamatakimo, which is a company legally, incorporated in Kenya by the 5 Anglican church of Kenya dioceses of Kajiado, Machakos, Taita, Kitui and Mombasa. ACK Kamatakimo serves an area with a population of l8million people in 13 administrative districts in South-Eastern Kenya. ACK Kamatakimo strives to promote the livelihood of the poor through programs and initiatives that address issues of food insecurity, health promotion and training in stewardship to enhance local resource development and mobilization. John has worked with Anglican church of Kenya for 13 years, his work has entailed coordination of development work, training of church leaders to enhance their managerial and leadership skills, program formulation and evaluation of projects. For the last 5 years Kamatakimo has been involved extensively with stewardship training and local resource development program covering 220 congregations and community groups. Kamatakimo envisions the time when every local congregation will be catering for the spiritual and social needs of the poor with available resources. John invites you to "Come and hear what the Lord is doing and give us suggestions of how we can achieve grater heights."

John has been involved in community development work since 1992 and with stewardship training since 1998. In his involvement with communities, he has been touched by health needs of rural people who suffer from diseases that are preventable. This led him to enrol for a part-time Advanced Diploma course in Public health at Kenyatta and a Masters in managing rural development with University of London (distance learning program). He holds a postgraduate diploma in project planning management and evaluation from PAID-ESA (Zambia) and a Diploma in Science Education (Mathematics and Biology).

His prayer is to see a healthy community/church that supports the poor first with local resources before seeking external support.