John-f. Oddenyo is the Executive Director and founder of CULINKE. He has several years experience of volunteer and community service, the last having been at the Kenya Red Cross Society as the Western Kenya Regional Blood Donor Recruiter. At the height of the post election violence in Kenya he was the acting Nyanza Regional Manager of the Kenya Red Cross Society where he spearheaded the emergency response. 

John-f., a former high school teacher of History and Government believes poverty could very well account for the sad and regrettable actions of the common man in reaction to the election results. Today he is an Institutional Development Consultant for non-profit organisations. His interests in the development sector are varied and he understands health and the Right to Health as crucial to development and poverty reduction. No-one leads a productive life when he is not healthy. 

He is a firm believer in the possibility of changing lives through the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) especially if the donor community would work closely with non-state actors, and if organisations and developing countries’ governments could be truly transparent and accountable to donors and to those they serve. John-f. sits in both the Board of Trustees and the Professional Advisory Committee as Secretary. He is a member of the UK Cambridge Association of Managers and is the Hon. Secretary of the USA Boulder State – Kisumu Sister City Committee.

The Alliance Girl’s educated Alice Anyango Onyango serves as the Deputy Director at CULINKE. She heads the administrative functions of the Organisation, working with the Executive Director. She oversees the Organisation’s programmatic and administrative operations ensuring that planning, resource mobilisation, allocation and management, service and information delivery, and staff performance and development support the mission of the Organisation.  

Alice is a graduate of Egerton University with a Bachelor of Education (Science) Second Class Hons, Upper Division. She is currently pursuing a Master’s of Science degree in Environmental Chemistry at Maseno University, Kenya. She also holds a diploma in marketing from the Kenya Institute of Management.  Previously she has worked as the centre manager of the Digital Advisory and Learning Centre (DALC) - Kisumu and the deputy principal of Nyamasaria Secondary School. 

 

 

Akinyi Okullo has extensive experience in the field of HIV and AIDS having worked as field officer with the Nairobi based Widows and Vulnerable Children and Widows and Orphans Welfare Society (WOWESOK) both in Nairobi, and with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in 2006-2006 as a Research Assistant on an Alternative Rite of Passage (ARP) to Female Genital Cutting (FGC) in Narok. In 2003 at the African Youth Parliament (AYP) as a Project Assistant Akinyi was instrumental in the Conceptualisation and setting up the Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) Resource Centre in Nairobi and with the same institution In 2005 she helped organise an International Youth Conference on Youth Participation in the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and the African Union (AU).  

She also served as an Advocacy Intern with the Refugee Consortium of Kenya (RCK), Nairobi where she played a key role in successfully organising World refugee Day at RCK grounds with over 300 refugees from Sudan, Somalia, Burundi, Rwanda, Congo and Ethiopia in attendance. In 2005 as a Project Assistant for African Youth Parliament (AYP) Akinyi helped organise an International Youth Conference on Youth Participation in the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and the African Union (AU).  

Born in 1979 Akinyi went to the prestigious Maryhill High School, Thika, and later to Moi University, Eldoret where she graduated in 2003 with a Bachelors Degree in Social Studies, 2^nd Class Honours. She also holds a certificate in Training of Trainers (TOT) on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health.

Akinyi believes that Advocacy on Youth and Reproductive Health is pivotal in preventing HIV and AIDS and is glad to have contributed to the Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) Resource Centre in Nairobi, through the replication of Youth –Youth Reproductive Health Clubs. At CULINKE we believe in shared responsibilities through effective partnerships, and work towards helping realise the MDGs by expanding medical service to the vulnerable. She has been with CULINKE since October 2006.