Collins Plimo Nakedi

Collins Plimo Nakedi has four years’ experience in community development and is co-founder and director of Hifadhi Africa Organization (HAO), a Kenyan NGO that promotes access to education, health care, water, and youth mentorship among pastoral communities and slums. Neither his siblings nor parents went to school, but determination saw Collins through a journey to creating sustainable equal opportunities for the underprivileged. Through HAO, he’s installed offline e-learning systems in pastoral schools with no internet access or electricity and few textbooks, using low-cost solar powered Raspberry Pi computers to create hotspots that provide world-class K-12 content, Khan Academy, KA Lite, health and medicine books, interactive videos and other learning tutorials. Collins Plimo Nakedi holds a Bachelor of Science degree in International Business Administration (Finance and Management) from the United States International University in Nairobi, and on completion of the Fellowship he hopes to change perspectives about ethnic minorities and pastoral children through education.