Podcast appearances and mentions of kennedy odede

The slums of Kenya are a tough place to grow up. Stealing a mango could get you killed.Kennedy Odede grew up in Kibera, Africa's largest urban slum. A street kid at age 10, he dreamed of factory work for 10 cents a day. But after stealing a mango out of hunger, a stranger's single act of kindness changed the course of his life.Today, Kennedy is the CEO and founder of Shining Hope for Communities, or SHOFCO. For 20 years, SHOFCO has empowered Kenya's poorest neighborhoods, helping over 4 million people access clean water, education, and Internet. In 2024, TIME Magazine named Kennedy one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Kennedy shares with me what it takes to see human goodness while surrounded by scarcity and anger, and how poverty taught him that being together is one of the greatest forms of wealth.This...is A Bit of Optimism.To learn more about Kennedy and his work, check out: SHOFCO.orgSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Kennedy Odede is one of Africa's best-known community organizers and social entrepreneurs.  Kennedy grew up in Kibera, Kenya, the largest slum in Africa, where he experienced the realities of extreme poverty first hand. While working at a factory, he saved 20 cents and used this to buy a soccer ball and start Shining Hope for…

Growing up in Kibera, one of Africa's largest urban slums, Kennedy Odede survived extreme childhood poverty, crime, sexual abuse and drug abuse on a path to ultimately becoming one of the most compelling social entreprenuers and community leaders working today. On our season 2 finale, Kennedy joins Zainab to share his harrowing journey and reveals why truly transforming oneself means also transforming the lives of others.

In this sixteenth interview of the “17 Rooms” podcast, Jamie Drummond and Kennedy Odede discuss shifts in power, process, and funding to uplift proximate leaders and value local knowledge and community-based solutions. Drummond, co-founder of ONE and Odede, CEO and co-founder of Shining Hope for Communities, moderated Room 11 focused on Sustainable Development Goal number 11—on sustainable cities and communities—during the 2021 17 Rooms flagship process. “17 Rooms” is a podcast about actions, insights, and community for the Sustainable Development Goals and the people driving them. The podcast is co-hosted by John McArthur—senior fellow and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at The Brookings Institution, and Zia Khan—senior vice president for innovation at The Rockefeller Foundation. Show notes and transcript: https://brook.gs/3KwKXt0  "17 Rooms" is part of the Brookings Podcast Network. Subscribe and listen on Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Send feedback to podcasts@brookings.edu, and follow and tweet at @policypodcasts on Twitter.

Kennedy Odede grew up in Kenya's Kibera slum, where he experienced first hand the devastating realities of life in extreme poverty. His experience led him to launch Shining Hope for Communities, or SHOFCO, an organization that impacts over 2.4 million slum dwellers across 17 urban slums in Kenya. Today Kennedy is one of Africa’s best-known community organizers and social entrepreneurs. Kennedy is also one of the hosts of the “Inclusive Cities: Last Mile Delivery in Slums and Informal Settlements”, which was held as part of Expo 2020 Dubai. His entire life is an answer to the question: What does my community need? This podcast is by Expo 2020 Dubai’s Programme for People and Planet, and produced by Kerning Cultures Network.

Kennedy Odede has gone from living in an East African slum with almost nothing, to becoming one of the continent's best known community leaders. In this episode of Roaming, we speak to Kennedy about the challenges he faced growing up, why philanthropy needs a change of heart, and how his own charity SHOFCO is helping local communities to build their own solutions for better healthcare, water access and education.   

Josephine is a single mother of four in Kibera, the sprawling slum in Nairobi, Kenya. At the beginning of the pandemic she was working as a cook, but soon, like many Kibera residents, lost her job, and when the BBC's Ed Butler spoke to her a year ago her situation was dire. In this final episode in the series, Josephine looks to the future, and how she might retrain herself to find new ways to put food on the table. We’ll also hear from Kibera community organiser Kennedy Odede, how Josephine’s is just one of thousands of stories in the township. Dr John Nkengasong, head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, tells us of his concerns about East Africa’s ability to recover from the virus, given the unequal rollout of vaccines. But Kennedy Odede says we should not underestimate the resilience of Kibera residents. Producer: Frey Lindsay. Special thanks to Henix Obuchunju of Pamoja FM in Nairobi. (Picture: Josephine and her family. Picture credit: Josephine Muchilwa)

Josephine is a single mother of four in Kibera, the sprawling slum in Nairobi, Kenya. At the beginning of the pandemic she was working as a cook, but soon lost her job, and when the BBC's Ed Butler spoke to her a year ago her situation was dire. In this episode, the third of a short series about Josephine and Kibera, we'll hear how Josephine's efforts to feed her family during the Coronavirus pandemic were further imperilled by a different virus, malaria. We'll also hear how the cost of her food stall, hospital bills and her children's needs sent Josephine further into debt. Local organiser Kennedy Odede describes how in fact consumer debt has rocketed in Kibera during the pandemic, and Judith Tyson of the ODI explains what impact that will have long-term. After all that, a final calamity befalls Josephine's small business. Producer: Frey Lindsay. (Picture: A local artists makes and sells face masks made from cloth in the Kibera slum, Nairobi, on April 14, 2020. Picture credit: TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images)

He started off as a poetry major. Then he read Why Should White Guys Have All The Fun by Reginald Lewis. Taj A. Eldridge, venture capitalist, defines success as the point at which there is available capital for every Black entrepreneur who needs it. He's at work on it, too. His company just raised $250,000,000 to help fund businesses founded by people of color in clean and new tech. And he event treats us to a short poetry reading about love. Favorite movie: Love Jones. Favorite song: A Change Is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke. Favorite words: Find a way or make one. Two more: "Talent is universal, but opportunity is not,"by by Kennedy Odede. And Proverbs 11:25, “A generous man will prosper; that he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.” Follow us on Instagram @365brothers and Facebook at 365BrothersThePodcast.  Interested in being a guest? Visit 365brothers.com. Check out Alitu for more ease editing, polishing and publishing your podcast. About this podcast: In each episode, a Brother reflects on his life; explores the experience of being a Black man in America; shares his interactions with law enforcement; and answers the signature question "If America was a woman, what would you say to her? You won't find a collection of conversations with Black men like this anywhere else. Hear their wisdom. Be inspired. Host, Rahbin Shyne, is an author, educator, creative and avid half-marathon walker. Special thanks to Sonji Walker, Shedrick Sanders, Abigail Gonzalez, Don Davis and William Hamilton for their generous support.

Josephine is a single mother of four in Kibera, the sprawling slum in Nairobi, Kenya. At the beginning of the pandemic she was working as a cook, but soon lost her job, and when the BBC's Ed Butler spoke to her a year ago her situation was dire. In this episode, the first of a short series about Josephine and Kibera, we hear how she struggled to start a small business to help feed her family. Also in the programme, Kibera community organiser Kennedy Odede explains how those first few months of desperation impacted the slum's residents. And economist Edward Kusewa, explains how those early months of lockdowns in East Africa are still affecting lives. Producer: Frey Lindsay. (Image: A woman walks home through empty streets after the 7pm curfew in Kibera, Nairobi; Credit: Kabir Dhanji/AFP via Getty Images)

Abrimos esta Impensa Semanal com com L'OBS que faz a sua capa com o mundo que vem aí, o que é que se deita fora e o que é que se guarda após a pandemia do coronavírus? Após dois meses de confinamento, o filósofo francês, Bruno Latour, ouviu 25 personalidades e a sua conclusão é a de que se deve desembaraçar das actividades destruídoras ambientais e da coesão social. Tornar o estado providência mais forte e as trocas de proximidade. Imaginar outros critérios económicos e contabilísticos, uma boa utilização do digital e novas relações com a China. Mas foi o Presidente Macron que deu o ponta pé de saída, a 12 de março com o seu discurso anunciando o encerramento das escolas. Nas próximas semanas e próximos meses necessitaremos de decisões de ruptura. Temos de reinventar e segundo o filósofo francês, Bruno Latour, o vírus ensinou-nos pelo menos uma coisa: para o bem e para o mal se quisermos mudar tudo temos que caminhar de mãos dadas. Para outro filósofo, o italiano, Giorgio Agamben, em nome do imperativo sanitário sacrificamos as nossas liberdades, mas também as nossas condições de vida normais, nossas amizades e o respeito dos nossos mortos, acrescenta, L'OBS.  Por seu lado, L'EXPRESS, faz a sua capa com, porque é que a escola é também vital.  Devemos tirar lições da crise do coronavírus e tirar proveito da recuperação para curar um sistema educativo doente das suas desigualdades. Há 20 anos que as classificações internacionais, Pisa, se sucedem e cada vez mais ferozes em relação ao ensino francês. Não houve melhorias na edição do mês de dezembro de 2019 Se os investigadores da OCDE deram uma boa nota na compreensão média da escrita sem registar uma evolução desde a primeira classificação em 2000, constataram também que esta estabilização é diferente consoante os alunos. Enquanto ao nível dos melhores alunos há uma tendência em alta, já para os mais fracos pelo contrário há uma tendência para a baixa nos resultados.  Este é um dos imperativos para o regresso urgente à escola que ela também precisa de cuidados urgentes. Em 1870, Jules Ferry, distinguia  duas classes de franceses, uma que recebeu  boa educação e outra que não recebeu, nota, L'EXPRESS. E se a África saísse melhor que o resto do mundo? LE POINT, dá pistas de como relançar a França, recorrendo a lições do General De Gaulle, que nas suas Memórias escreveu: velha França, amachucada pela História mas que se levanta todos os séculos. Citação que serve de título ao editorial de Franz-Olivier Giesbert, a perguntar: pode Macron relançar a França? E porque não poderia? Se não é De Gaulle, ele tem pelo menos um trunfo, a França, com a condição que a França continue a ser a França. Várias vezes ao longo da sua história, o nosso país soube ultrapassar desastres humanos e económicos. Teve de escolher entre uma simples reconstrução e a modernização. Em 1871 a fulgurante reactividade dos cidadãos desembocou na potência económica da França. Em 1919, os remédios passaram pela inflação e dívida e depois de 1945, a proposta foi diferente, não apenas reconstruir mas também modernizar e a partir de 1948 foi o plano Marshall, com ajuda dos Estados Unidos, fez a modernização da França. Pode Macron inspirar-se do New Deal do Presidente americano Roosevelt? Mas para o filósofo Pierre-Henri Tavoillot, em França, o que se sabe é refilar, detestar, mas nunca avaliar com rigor a acção pública, nota, LE POINT. A terminar, depois da pandemia, mudar as cidades, é a capa do COURRIER INTERNATIONAL, que sobre o continente africano, pergunta: e se a África saísse melhor que o resto do mundo?, retomando um artigo do Financial Times. Muitos previam uma catástrofe com a chegada do Covid-19 em África. Bill Gates, por exemplo, disse que a doença poderia causar 10 milhões de mortos entre os africanos, um número impensável. Ora dois meses depois  alguns ousam ser optimistas dizendo que o continente poderia ser poupado. Não compreendo, lança Kennedy Odede, um militante associativo que disse que a semana passada de 400 pessoas testadas num bairro suburbano de Nairobi, apenas 3 foram testados positivos, nota COURRIER INTERNATIONAL. 

Kennedy Odede dreamed of providing his neighborhood with safe, affordable water. But first he had to negotiate with the gangs monopolizing Kibera's water supply.

Kennedy Odede had a tough start in life. He grew up in Kibera in Kenya, Africa’s biggest slum. Poverty drove him to stealing and drugs. He believed his future prospects were either death or prison. He didn’t go to school but Kennedy taught himself to read from newspapers he found in the rubbish. It was the start of a spectacular change of fortune. He began learning about the American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King and was inspired. Kennedy wanted to start his own movement and it all began with football. His project, Shining Hope for Communities, just grew and grew. He’s now built two schools and seven health clinics. Kennedy also won a US scholarship, he speaks six languages and has rubbed shoulders with Beyoncé. Presenter: Emily Webb Producer: Saskia Edwards Image: Kennedy Odede Credit: Courtesy of Shining Hope for Communities

Multi award winning African entrepreneur, Kennedy Odede shares is journey tackling extreme poverty and bringing education, healthcare and clean energy to local communities. In this episode, Kennedy Odede inspires us with his story as a homeless kid facing daily challenges of violence on the street to how he started SHOFCO, the largest grassroot movement transforming urban slums in Nairobi, Kenya. Kennedy Odede is the founder of SHOFCO Shining Hope for Communities that is addressing the deep challenges of extreme poverty. Kennedy explains how he has managed to create quality healthcare services and a safe space to educate young women and bringing in new solar technology to the local community. Kennedy is recognised for the impact he is creating and awarded the Young Global Leaders and Echoing Green Fellow. Kennedy strongly believes the power of technology, education and why we should always start with the people. Learn more about SHOFCO here https://www.shofco.org/ Kennedy Odede tweets @KennedyOdede Host: Adam Woodhall of www.inspiring-sustainability.com Connect: www.linkedin.com/in/adamwoodhall   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Since childhood, Kennedy Odede faced intolerable hardship, but he never let a bad draw undermine his determination to uplift both himself and his community. It's not until you hear Mr. Odede speak that you can believe he holds such a positive and hopeful outlook on life. Together with his wife, Jessica Posner, Kennedy has grown Shining Hope for Communities into a powerhouse of change for Kenya's largest slum and beyond. Last October they released their book Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum, which has recently been released on paperback. In this episode, Kennedy and Jessica discuss the key to community-driven solutions to poverty. Both inspiring and practical, they reveal the challenges behind empowerment and the methods that have worked well for their organization. You'll learn: How to adopt a partnership mindset that's actually fruitful Why empowerment isn't just in the hands of nonprofits How SHOFCO enables leaders within the communities where they work How SHOFCO's holistic approach to poverty works How to tell the stories of beneficiaries on the ground to donors in the US

This week, we are especially grateful for bright, brave minds like those of Kennedy Odede and Jessica Posner, authors of FIND ME UNAFRAID. Join us for a timely re-listen to be reminded of an individual’s capacity to make a meaningful difference in the world around them.

Can a soccer ball transform a violent slum? Yes! Kennedy Odede and Jessica Posner, authors of Find Me Unafraid, stopped by the studio to talk about the world being a very small village, the best way to break down a problem, and the myth of an unfightable giant. Download the FIND ME UNAFRAID audiobook via iTunes http://ads.harpercollins.com/hcaudiopres?isbn=9780062416674&retailer=apple or Audible http://ads.harpercollins.com/hcaudiopres?isbn=9780062416674&retailer=audible

Kennedy Odede, age 29 of Kenya, received the Dedication honor for his Work with Shining Hope for Communities. Kennedy is the president and CEO of Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO). SHOFCO’s current programming comprises a school for girls, a free health clinic, a micro-loan and micro-savings program, sanitation and clean water services, and a program to combat gender‐based violence and promote sexual health of young people in the community. Kennedy founded SHOFCO with nothing more than a soccer ball and his “faith in people’s abilities to change their own lives.” Talia Leman, age 19 from Iowa, USA was honored with the Giving Award for her role with RandomKid. As the CEO and a Founder of RandomKid, Talia develops ideas, strategies and networks between kids internationally to increase their impact. She also leads "power" assemblies, doles out seed funds to help jumpstart philanthropic ventures, organizes web-conferences between youth across the globe, and mentors her peers in success strategies for achieving their goals to benefit others. Having been appointed UNICEF's first known National Youth Ambassador, Talia has worked with kids from 20 countries and together these kids have reported close to 11 million dollars through RandomKid-guided initiatives. Mastura Rashid, age 24 of Malaysia, was honored with the SpiritualityAward. Rashid is the founder and project manager of the Nasi Lemak Project, a community service project she initiated in 2011. The Nasi Lemak Project is a young, independent and effective movement to counter urban poverty in Malaysia. The Nasi Lemak Project gained traction and momentum when Rashid was one of the few who received funding from the office of Special Representative of Muslim Communities under their Generation Change Grant. The Nasi Lemak Project mechanism in eradicating urban poverty is done through these three main areas: feeding program, education, and rendering assistance.