Kenyans in the diaspora have begun mobilizing resources to complement the government’s efforts in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Diaspora Covid-19 Taskforce (DCTF) will coordinate the campaign that also aims at raising funds to cushion Kenyans affected by the pandemic, both at home and abroad.
Members of the taskforce are drawn from various groups including Kenya Diaspora Alliance (KDA), Diaspora Institute, and the Diaspora Health Task Team (DHTT).
DCTF, chaired by New York-based Rosemary Musomba, was constituted in March this year to directly manage diaspora’s Covid-19 responses. Its work involves mobilizing funds and expertise, as well as participating in informative discussions.
“Since the formation of the Taskforce, a number of COVID-19 interventions have been put in place. Notably, boosting of the tertiary health facility in Wajir country with the first-ever 2-bed ICU capacity in partnership with the World Bank,” the taskforce said in a statement on Friday.
It is also facilitating the production of more than 10,000 masks per day in eight counties in Kenya. Further, the taskforce partnered with the University of Nairobi Virology Department and KAVI to carry out initial clinical Covid-19 treatment trials.
It also lobbied the government to facilitate the repatriation of Kenyans stuck in different countries in the wake of the global outbreak of Covid-19.
The taskforce is targeting to raise $2 million (over Sh200 million) to support at least 10 counties in phase one over the next three to six months.
“We have noted the critical importance, difference, and impact of our intervention in health and general socio-economic standing of the beneficiaries within and out of the country,” said KDA chairman Shem Ochuodho.
“To be able to accomplish what we have set out to do, we are seeking partnership, collaboration, cooperation with our partners, and other volunteers.”
Ngai fafa wameiba ya WHO are…
Ngai fafa wameiba ya WHO are they going to spare this good luck. Uhuru is for seeing corruption and celebrating. Josh 13pp for a mask going for 700
You took words out of my…
You took words out of my mouth. All I can say is support people in your village or mtaa. Go to the market or shop and buy food for the needy people.
Conmen never cease to amuse!…
Conmen never cease to amuse! Shem Ochuodho is a professional conman who’s perfected the game with utmost amusement! How do you mobilize Kenyans in the Diaspora, yet you’re domiciled in Kenya? Second, and more important, the government of Kenya received billions of dollars from donors,’which has not been properly utilized. How do you then seek to mobilize for more funds when the billions already in the hands of government has not been utilized? Last time it was low, low income housing. Before this was Kenya Diaspora Investment Club in which millions of shillings was collected but no cent has ever been invested or accounted for! Shem Ochuodho, you’re a despicable manipulator period
@john – the guy just woke up…
@john – the guy just woke up to the idea that some politicians are getting rich scamming on the money donated to Kenya by the British and the US government! He is now formulating his con around that idea thinking diaspora Kenyans are stupid! This scan will not stick!!
Ooooooo….k! Let’s give…
Ooooooo….k! Let’s give this one another try.
good thoughts but if you are…
good thoughts but if you are helping the government that’s not helping kenyans, whats the point…? Just send help to people you already know are in need as we have been been doing.
What a perfect thesis of yet…
What a perfect thesis of yet, another total international conmanship. God forbid.
OMG;Is this another loose…
OMG;Is this another loose Wildcats con artists groups trying to manipulate diasporians like URITHI HOUSING COOPERATIVE management.
You said said it right @jane…
You said said it right @jane! Now give your money to this conn so he buy a jet avv NVC s show off in Kenya!
The USA n The British…
The USA n The British governments smell a rat on how the money they gave our government for the covid issue was spent n we now have to put out trust on some Kenyans hia to collect money for the cause. Dear Kenyans we just came from a con of a nigga claiming his Parents were dead, atleast give us a break to recover from this one before u lay another con on us.
This guy asking for a cool …
This guy asking for a cool $2 million is a bigger conn than the one with the dead parents! Donate if you are foolish enough to give you money to a thief! Have you no decency dr Shem Ochuodho; have you no decency!!!???
Covid donations/grants
1…
Covid donations/grants
1. WorldBank – 108bn
2. IMFNews -78bn
3.AfDB_Group bank -25bn
4.EU_Commission -7.8bn
5. EU_Commission nation’s – 40bn
43bn Loooted at Kemsa_Kenya alone.
The Treasury CS said “Kenya has received 134bn and only 9bn is lying idle at CBK.
So, what exactly are these diaspora organizations saying???
They are an example of Stupidity of the highest degree.
They are telling you that a…
They are telling you that a window of opportunity has presented itself for them to conn you! Please not the face shown here of Shem Ochuodho!! He is a well established crack pot in the diaspora! He is not alone! There are many others conning people in the name uplifting ordinary Kenyans in Kenya. Don’t fall for a scam!
Fellow Kenyans in the…
Fellow Kenyans in the diaspora – please watch out for these heavy handed conmen! We have been conned before and here they come again to conn you with covid19!
The cause is reasonably good but those collecting the money are very tainted! You will be conned and the money you contribute will never get to Kenya to help with COVID19!
The face you are seeing here is a familiar face when it comes to conducting fake schemes in the name of Kenyan diaspora. A former MP for some place in Nyanza, Kenya who has perfected the art of conning some hard working Kenyans in the diaspora and others.
Him and another one called Dr Kinungi fight over diaspora money while bad mouthing each other! Why keeping saying whose organization is better for people to donate if the intended mission is the same?
This is where conmanship have been under taken by some highly educated folks who are stealing from diaspora Kenyans! They reach out to you with flowery tongues to get your money, but it never reaches the intended destination!
Shem and the rest of them will collect the money to go hang out in 5 star hotels consulting with the most corrupt politicians, and eating shs 6000.00 breakfast plate in high class hotels!
This money can be used for a start up mom and papa business to help the ordinary Kenyans! These conns never go to see how life is in the rural areas once they touch ground in Kenya. Why can Shem Ochuodho simply sponsor needy Kenyans with the expensive food money instead of stomaching that money in a luxury hotel in Nairobi, Kenya?? Why, why, whyyyy!!!???
These folks have been collecting money for the longest time, but no one is willing to show how that money is spent – what happened to basic mathematics and accountability? Do you want to tell me that a PhD guy does not know how to add up 1 + 1 = 2 or whatever!!??
Time for honesty, accountability and honor has come and Kenyans must wise up to hold these conns accountable for every penny they are collecting from you in the name of diaspora ventures back in Kenya!!
Now every body is talking…
Now every body is talking about raising shs 200,000,000 to support the COVID19 fight in counties! The same counties have been misusing money coming from the the donor countries of USA and England!
And these goons here want to conn us even more during these hard hitting times! Ochuodho are you hallucinating, out of your mind, or what kind of dope are you sniffing????
It smells very funny, fishy like a rotten omena, and strange for these diaspora so called “experts people” to now want to jump in the fray of collecting money while they are aware of the theft of money that is already donated and have been mishandled! Yes, they have found an opportunity to enrich themselves with covid19 menace!
Are these guys coming up with another scan to benefit themselves here in the diaspora!? We got people lying that family members are dead to raise money! These diaspora conns have now morphied into areas that even a dummy finds them difficult to believe!
I tell those now collecting money from the fellow diaspora to get real jobs and stop stealing from us in these hard times.
Over 60 million Americans have lost their jobs, are very hard hit in keeping mortgages going or making it on daily basis! Among this group are diaspora Kenyans but none of these conns are talking about or doing anything about it! What a nonsensical shit!!??
And the Kenyan conns have no shame to ask us to contribute money so that they can continue to live like fat dogs and cats? What have they done to provide Jobs to those diaspora Kenyans who have lost jobs and are losing their homes! Can’t even send kids to colleges! You talk about mixed priorities!?
Surely we want to help fight covid19 in our home country. But the covid19 funds theft in Kenya is alarming and no one want to tell how the money was spent!
So you want to keep on pouring more money in a black hole without questioning how that money is spent!? Purely stupid and ridiculous if you ask me! It does require a PhD dude to tell where to put our money folks! Tell Shem to take a hike; literally!!!
I think this idea of giving…
I think this idea of giving people free stuff ( hand outs or a welfare system) have handicapped the minds of Kenyans from being innovative and self reliant! Nyanza people have suffered this “ give me” decease for ages. Folks with briefcases or gold have come a gone! Ochuodho use to be one of them as an MP! He left Nyanza more poorer then when we elected him the MP. He took off to America to find some new golden opportunities for him and his family!
However, he is now find a new opportunity to enrich himself with the covid19, just like the politicians he left behind are doing stealing donor money! Shen knows every one of those thieves! Now he is searching for a bigger golden briefcase paid for by the unquestioning diaspora! Go ahead good people, be duped with your eyes wide open!!
Free stuff is always misused and applied in the wrong places! If you get money that you have not sweated first, you will misuse it and will be left with nothing to show for it!
58 year after Kenya’s independence, Kenyans have lost the gene of creativity and the independence of mind to finds solutions for the problems affecting them! Look at Korea – they used to be worse of than Kenya but they stuck together and came up with some solutions that have put them in the world map!
The so called educated people keep deceiving ordinary Kenyans that the only way problems can be solved is by having some PhD guys in the diaspora ( high towers of New York and Houston, Texas) raise up money for you! Kenyans are made hopelessly dependent or forces that care less about their plight! – Shem Ochuodho and company are you listening? You are making Kenyans live a life of poverty and dependence while you find ways to enrich your selfish pockets just like the colonialist have done before you!
Why are Kenyans going to find local means to meet their urgent needs? So that they can learn how to tackle issues that come their way every single day! Stop be impoverished by some PhD guys seating in the diaspora lying to you that help is on the way!
The educated are the worse in spreading the notion that home grown solutions are half baked or useless! Some of these people deliberately mislead Kenyans to thinking below who they are and their capability to tackle their issues! We have some well informed Kenyans back home who knows what the problems are and how to work on solutions to fix those needs!
Are educated Kenyans a true representative of the colonial masters who tends to think Kenyans are incapable and can’t make it through life without depending on them 58 years since independence!? I’m really afraid to say that the diaspora learned elites are failing our people at home! They always make us feel insufficient in dealing with basic matters of life; they are a menace to our growth as a people and their teachings are eschewed at best! Throwing money after money into a problem breeds compliance of those affected!! It is time to do things in a mor business “unusual” ways to find a true cure for our local problems!
I declare that the white man’s kind of education is not serving our ingenious mind well because it has continued to make us slaves of the west. Even worse we are now becoming more enslaved by China through exorbitant loans we get from the Chinese government! Are we yet Uhuru?? When China throws us covid19 nonsense curve, we are left wondering whose fight it is to deal with coronavirus while we have thousands of scientists aimlessly tamacking the streets of Nairobi with/without a job or clear scientific purpose to find a cure!
We must start teaching our future generations/children to think more independently and how do things with the freedom to explore more within the continent of Africa to find the necessary solutions without having to wholly depend on the west, China and the diaspora PhD guys who seems to think that only them can solve our problems back home. The diaspora PhD guys are not the answer to our issues in Kenya!!
These PhD guys have been bought and they are making a mockery of our country all over the world! They are more greedy than you would wish to think! With shs 209,000,000 raised, you bet Ochuodho is already calculating his huge commission cut – he got to build a 500 guests hotel in Karachuonyu; and the rest of you are just a phase of history in his mind towed the covid19 war in the counties in Kenya!!
Wanjinga ndio waliwao.
Wanjinga ndio waliwao.
Run fast when you see a mad…
Run fast when you see a mad man coming your way! Shem Ochuodho wants you to cough $2 million for his own planned projects! Dude got to live nicely when he returns to Kisumu!
He got no covid19 plans in his mind! He is conning you people as you share a cup of hot tea (Decaf for that matter)! Run people!!
An ex Kenya MP carrying out…
An ex Kenya MP carrying out the sham duties of conning his fellow diaspora in America! Take cover folks!!
“What began as a virus in…
“What began as a virus in CHINA,landed in EUROPE as a pandemic, arrived and exposed America’s political vulnerabilities and made its way in KENYA as a business.” Shem Ochuodo is at the center of it all in organizing the diaspora with his friends in USA to get a market share of the new business of making quick money! Shem go! Mary Musumba go!
#covid19millionares
Well said and very…
Well said and very articulated to the core!! Ochuodho and his con team are busy minting millions from the diaspora! No shame at all!!
“What began as a virus in…
“What began as a virus in CHINA,landed in EUROPE as a pandemic, arrived and exposed America’s political vulnerabilities and made its way in KENYA as a business.”
#covid19millionares
So I’m reading all these…
So I’m reading all these comments and I love that Diasporins gave finally woken up and smelled the coffee.
So let’s promise NOT to give even 1cr. To these glatons ib kenya. AND let’s identify the wolves’ in sheep skin among us HERE in Diaspora. Open your eyes note names and organization s, follow their activities closely and see how they just suddenly end and another crops up . PAY attention to the BIG NAMES in Diaspora who are ALWAYS very Charismatic, they have a great following. There in is your WOLF! Ready to eat you
I have never even heard of…
I have never even heard of these groups. Whom do they serve?? the elites??
Members of the taskforce are drawn from various groups including Kenya Diaspora Alliance (KDA), Diaspora Institute, Kenya North America Diaspora SACCO (KNADS), and the Diaspora Health Task Team (DHTT).
What fuckery is this? The…
What fuckery is this? The same government looted billions meant for COVID-19.poor Kenyans dying of hunger and diseases while those greedy potbellied pigs are happy stealing the donations. Unless the organizers are conmen too who want to picket a lump some from diasporans. This is unworthy course.
Shidwe, robbery without…
Shidwe, robbery without violence. Why do you want to leave curses to your children???
Mtosheke na yenye mumekula, but remember it will follow you.
Concerned.,
Can you post…
Concerned.,
Can you post the list of the names of this Self nominated diaspora initiative people., when & who elected this group of people and organizations to represent Diaspora’s., In short who gave the the mandate.,
Can you also post the break down of how the money that has already been sent to Kenya for Covid19 has been used??????
If you want to help people…
If you want to help people in Kenya, do it directly. You have family or neigbours that will appreciate your help. There are just too many wolves in sheep clothing to trust anyone from this far.Beware!
If you get swindled, it’s your fault. We all now how corrupt our people are. Do not complain if you are taken. Is there anyone in the diaspora who hasn’t been taken advantage of? Thieves use disasters like the Covid-19 to break into anywhere they can, including you pockets.
Well said. Help those you…
Well said. Help those you know and can be sure your help reaches them. This business of conning the diaspora is too much. The same govt squandered the aid given. How do we put more money in their fat pockets while our people mashinani are suffering? Help family, bros, sis, uncles , friends and neighbors you know. Reach others in need through your family and friends but forget this govt and organizations business. They only enrich themselves
Well said. Help those you…
Well said. Help those you know and can be sure your help reaches them. This business of conning the diaspora is too much. The same govt squandered the aid given. How do we put more money in their fat pockets while our people mashinani are suffering? Help family, bros, sis, uncles , friends and neighbors you know. Reach others in need through your family and friends but forget this govt and organizations business. They only enrich themselves