Six Kenyans to Receive Millions of Shillings from Facebook

Six Kenyans are among individuals from across the world who are set to receive millions of shillings from US social networking company Facebook.

Recently, the California- headquartered tech giant announced over 100 groups from different countries have been selected for this year’s Facebook Community Leadership Program, a global initiative which invests in people who are building communities.

The six Kenyans, all founders of Facebook pages that are moving lives, made it to the list. There are two categories of those to be awarded in the program; community leaders in residence groups and fellows groups.

Among the six Kenyans chosen, only entrepreneur Noah Nasiali was named in the community leaders in residence groups category. In this category Facebook gives up to $1,000,000 (Sh100 million).

Nasiali is the founder of Africa Farmers Club’, a Facebook community with more than 100,000 farmers in Africa.

The other five Kenyans were named in fellows group category and will receive Sh5 million each. They include Pamellah Oduor, founder of ‘Let’s Cook Kenyan Meals’, Truphosah Monah, who founded ‘Women and Realities of Disability’ and Caroline Kihusa, founder of ‘Still A Mum Trust’.

Others are Asha Mwery, the founder of ‘WomenWorlkKE’, a group which brings together Kenyan women with various business ambitions and Nation Media Group journalist Felista Wangari who founded ‘52 Week Money Challenge Kenya group’ which encourages members to save money