Airtel expands its humanity opportunities for positive impact in the Kenyan society.

Airtel CEO Adil EL Youssefi interacts with a child at I-Afrika Centre
 during the launch of the biogas project.

Airtel Kenya coastal sales team recently participated in this year’s Dear Diary Initiatives Kenya Go-Kart Family Fun Day Fundraiser event. The event blended CSR activity where the team donated food stuff to the disabled. The team gave monetary support towards the event and also participated in the Race where they emerged 4th out of the 7 teams.    
While congratulating the coastal team for their support, Airtel Kenya CEO Adil El Youssefi said, “I am delighted at the team’s participation in the occasion. This is commendable and I am sure that the children appreciate the love and kind gesture. As employees of a responsible corporate entity, we also look for opportunities to touch the lives of people where we operate. 
To actualize this objective, we have set up an Employee Volunteer Scheme which will be the vehicle that will help us reach out to the community. This is one of such efforts and we expect more from our staff.” 
Mr.Youssefi added that the Airtel Employee Volunteer Scheme would continue to look for opportunities to make positive impact in the Kenyan society.    
 Speaking at the event, The Dear Diary Initiatives Kenya Co-founder Peter Kwame thanked the Airtel coastal team for the visitation and donations, saying that it was always reassuring to know that despite other responsibilities, the employees still found the time to extend love to the family.
The Dear Diary Initiatives Kenya is a community based not for profit making campaign that was established in 2011 to advocate for the rights and welfare of people living with disabilities. It was founded by Nafisa Khanbhai, a physically challenged lady with a passion to ensure that the disabled are handled with dignity and not sympathy."

To echo its focus on humanity activities as a corporate, Airtel Kenya also, recently  announced its support for Immanuel Afrika’s (I-Afrika) biogas project.  The facility will see I-Afrika join a growing list of organizations that are opting for clean and cheaper energy sources.  The plant is designed to save I-Afrika thousands of shillings in fuel and electricity expenses. The facility is also set to produce an environmentally friendly fertiliser for use on the organization’s farm where they grow maize, beans, potatoes, kales among other crops.      

Airtel CEO Adil El Youssefi takes a tour of
 I-Afrika Centre in Kikuyu with the children.

Speaking at the organization’s offices in Kikuyu recently,  Adil El Youssefi said “Kenya’s future relies on the foundation we give to our children. A solid foundation and hope that is provided to the disadvantaged children in homes such as I-Afrika will indeed give these young ones a bright future. It is a double coincidence that the construction of the biogas plant for the organization will help in the conservation of our environment while at the same time help the needy children achieve their dream”.

According to I-Afrika Director Peter Nduati, This organization uses a lot of firewood for cooking, and this project will reduce the dependence on the forest, and hence ease pressure on the ecosystem. The organization can also use the bio-effluent as fertilizer since it is safe for production of crops, and hence boosts food security. 

“The money that we’ve been using to buy firewood will now be channelled towards other areas such as school fees payment for the boys.”

Immanuel Afrika (I Afrika) is a street boy rehabilitation project started during the height of Kenya’s post-election violence in early 2008. Currently the Centre feeds and houses more than 80 former street boys (56 residential, 20 outside). Located in the outskirts of Kikuyu Divison, in Lusigetti town, the organization aims to take street boys out of this hopeless by rehabilitating and are enrolling them in school or vocational education. Those with suitable families are reconciled and reintegrated, and those without make I Afrika their permanent home.