Makena Ireri

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Volunteer Experience

  • Junior Achievement Africa Graphic

    Programms volunteer

    Junior Achievement Africa

    - 9 months

    Economic Empowerment

    Aan NGO focused on teaching entrepreneurship skills to young people. As an alumni of the programme I used the taught knowledge to reach out to students in over 20 schools in Nairobi delivering content on entrepreneurship while also supporting operational aspects of the NGO.
    - Setting up and running the Alumni Association for former Junior Achievement participants.
    - Helping implement/launch the programme is various schools.
    - Organising events: producing event promotion material , and…

    Aan NGO focused on teaching entrepreneurship skills to young people. As an alumni of the programme I used the taught knowledge to reach out to students in over 20 schools in Nairobi delivering content on entrepreneurship while also supporting operational aspects of the NGO.
    - Setting up and running the Alumni Association for former Junior Achievement participants.
    - Helping implement/launch the programme is various schools.
    - Organising events: producing event promotion material , and assisting in running the events

  • Engineers Without Borders UK Graphic

    Volunteer, Member & Advocate

    Engineers Without Borders UK

    - Present 15 years 11 months

    Poverty Alleviation

    9 year involvement in various capacities

    - Outreach (2008-2011): Lead the Manchester University EWB outreach team who adapted, arranged and delivered workshops to students and the general UK public on global challenges e.g. energy poverty and how engineering can help solve them.

    - Placement mentoring (2012/2013)- Vigyna AshraM (India): Assembled a team of Atkins engineers to mentor EWB-UK placement volunteers installing sustainable technologies for a school in…

    9 year involvement in various capacities

    - Outreach (2008-2011): Lead the Manchester University EWB outreach team who adapted, arranged and delivered workshops to students and the general UK public on global challenges e.g. energy poverty and how engineering can help solve them.

    - Placement mentoring (2012/2013)- Vigyna AshraM (India): Assembled a team of Atkins engineers to mentor EWB-UK placement volunteers installing sustainable technologies for a school in India.

    -Renewable Technologies: learning and practice (Mexico-2014): Understanding and implementing renewable energy and other sustainable technologies is poverty elevation in conjunction with CATIS (Caminos de agua) and Sistema Biobolsa.

    -International Placement (Kenya-2015): International placement volunteers (2015) work with field based NGO’s in over 10 countries to donate our skills to build local capacity and solve specific problems.

    -Advocacy (Ongoing)- I speak to students, young professionals and, on occasion, government and industry representative (e.g DfID) on behalf on EWB-UK and continue to be involved in supporting their activities.

    http://www.ewb-uk.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Our-International-Work-in-2015.pdf

Honors & Awards

  • ICE Quest Travel Award-2014

    Institution of Civil Engineers

  • Happold Scholar (2010)

    The Happold Foundation

Languages

  • Swahili

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

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