User:Waihigakmuturi/sandbox

Waihiga K.Muturi is a great believer that Africa must change the way it tackles poverty.

He also bears a particular interest and experience towards ICT4D and C4D that meets the very tenets of the Human Centered Design approach.

During the 2007/2008 post-election violence (PEV) in Kenya, he was spurred into creating a sustainable means of income for his friends in Nakuru, Kenya where youths were being used to perpetrate violence. After the mediation by Kofi Annan, they found themselves in limbo, an opportunity he used to organize them & start a small garbage collection business that thrived enough to rehabilitate 66 youths into meaningful employment.

This inspired his journey into media, social entrepreneurship and youth activism, leading to the creation of Let's Create Africa(LCA), Africa's first B-Corp certified communications social enterprise; leveraging on communication technology to uplift the lives of the bottom million in Africa. We do this by building [http://www.communitypartnering.info/what45.html#:~:text=Community%20based%20enterprises%20use%20business,community%20benefit%2C%20not%20private%20gain.&text=Community%20based%20enterprises%20are%20also%20called%20social%20enterprises. community-based businesses] that drive social change within zero-low income communities. Furthermore, providing them with peer-to-peer training, mentorship, market linkages and micro-funding.

Bearing over 12 years’ experience in Pan-African socioeconomic innovation (media, technology & management), he consults for organizations (locally & internationally) niched within the start-up, micro, small and medium enterprises & plays a pivotal role in workplace mediation, working with various central and local governments, corporates & INGO's as a community developer.

A major highlight of his career is the conceptualization, development & implementation in the construction of one of the biggest regional egg markets along the Kenyan Southern bypass that has provided business opportunities to an estimate of 100,000 farmers & improved their income from their usual $8 to $120 a month.

Also, the conceptualization and management of various technology for development (T4D) projects currently valued at $50000 - $120000.

As a brand champion, keynote speaker and TV host, he commands an estimate growing audience of 172,000 followers annually across multiple platforms. Where he focusses on solutions-based storytelling (Constructive/Citizen journalism) as he continues using business as a force for good. He is also a practitioner and advocate for the youth, design thinking and the SDGs.

As a serial social entrepreneur, he is always interested in working with people building businesses that are building Africa (ensuring last-mile impact).