Armstrong O'Brian Ongera, Jr. Is a Kenyan citizen, aged 29 years old, a graduate of philosophy and international relations. He is the current President and Executive Director, AID Kenya Foundation, a nonprofit humanitarian and development charitable foundation with a mission of Changing Lives, Impacting Humanity. The Foundation focuses its feel-good programs and projects through the Project HOPE Kenya, a program focused on orphaned & vulnerable children, teenage mothers, women and youth at risk and the disadvantaged populations in rural-urban Kenya.
Mr. Ongera is also the founding Executive Director, Capital Youth Caucus Association (CYCA), an in and out of school youth-based nonprofit association dedicated to teaching the youth on democracy and human rights; promoting peace and nonviolent conflict resolution; combating drug and alcohol use and abuse; and empowering youth with life-skills, with the primary aim of making the youth become a responsible citizen, and participate in nation building.
Mr. Ongera serves on boards of many youth and community organizations, and likes giving lectures, holding round-tables, and presenting policy papers on democracy and human rights; Volunteerism; child and youth rights; youth and women empowerment; interdependence and civic engagement; entrepreneurship and job creation; peace and nonviolent conflict resolutions; and project strategic planning and implementation.
Mr. Ongera is also a country representative to major international originations-Democracy Institute (DI) a US-UK based policy formulation strategic think-tank with a chapter office in Nairobi, and ADDHU, a Portuguese International humanitarian organization. He has also featured in two major documentaries about Kenyas slum life: One Radio Documentary in 2006 with Public Radio International (PRI/BBC USA), a Radio Station based in Boston Massachusetts, by Dr. Sheri Fink and another in 2004 in a book project -Shadow Cities-by Robert Neuwirth, an investigative journalism based in New York, USA and he is currently writing a set of three books based on his experience in living in the slums and fighting for children and teenagers in Kenya:1. The Nation Building: The Role of the Youth in Volunteerism 2. The Voice of Kenyan OVC Kids & Teenage Mothers: From Adversity and Rejection to HOPE and Embrace and 3. The Civic Action: The Evolution of African Democracy.
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AID Kenya Foundation
P. O. Box 5956-00200
Nairobi, Kenya
Tel. + 254 772 178 818
Cell: + 254 722 649 965
www.aidkenya.org
