We are thankful and excited to introduce to you Peter K. Gichigo. Peter is our new Business Manager and will be mainly working on networking and fund raising for Marianne Center in Kenya. He will also support us in (setting up) our income generating activities and other programs. Peter has recently returned from Zambia where he was working in development as a resources mobilization advisor under the VSO volunteering program with his core activities including but not limited to institutional capacity building, networking, fundraising and decentralization.
Previously he worked in The Gambia, West Africa still with VSO, placed at The Association of Non Governmental Organizations [TANGO], the umbrella body of NGOs in The Gambia as a capacity builder in human resources, partnership building, organizational development and financial management, and also with extensive job placements at the Rural Support Organization for the Disabled (RSOD), the Gambia Organization of the Visually Impaired (GOVI), and The Gambia Federation of the Disabled (GFD).

In Kenya, Peter has previously worked for Government at the then Ministry of Commerce and Industry and also at the Industrial and Commercial Development Corporation in senior managerial positions. His huge experience in management spans to over twenty years. Having worked in international placements, and having mingled with development workers from all parts of the world and with local partners and communities from different cultures, he upholds and appreciates the strengths of cross-cultural diversity, and more so, the role played by non-state actors in development. He enjoys working with the marginalized and the less privileged in challenging circumstances.
We are very happy to have Peter on board and we are excited to see what the future will bring for Marianne Center due to his work.