Walter Odhiambo: ‘Nobody is coming to save you’

SOS Children's Villages International National Director Walter Odhiambo during the interview at his office in Nairobi on April 30, 2026.

Photo credit: Lucy Wanjiru | Nation Media Group

Here are the things Walter S. Odhiambo wanted as a child: A big job. A good life. A beautiful wife. That last one, especially, was a non-negotiable. So he went out and got one. He considers himself easygoing, affable, a man who has come to accept his lot in life. He doesn’t do small things, doesn’t do small talk, and doesn’t play small.

It wasn’t always like this. Before he became the National Director of SOS Children’s Villages International, before travelling the world, before his wife and all that jazz, there was a life of bricks on his back.

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