Chege Ngugi has trodden the long road. Consider this; orphaned as a child, missing his A-levels and joining a polytechnic, after a stint at General Motors as a management trainee, which he walked away from, afterwards a TSC teacher in a girls’ school in Turkana…walked away from that one too.
Then an accounts teacher at the Commercial College in Ruiru. Then somehow came an opening at Kenya Women Finance Trust, which opened the door that led him to his successful career working with the vulnerable, starting at Plan International, CARE (in Maputo, then Kenya as a director where he created Bimas, an independent microfinance from a micro-credit project), Food For The Hungry (director, Uganda) and finally ChildFund International in 2011 as Country Director in Mozambique (brains behind Banco Oportunidade, a microfinance bank), working his way to his current position as African Regional Director overseeing nine countries.
