Daily Archives: 2008-05-21


Youthful enterprise They may be young, but the staff at Nairobi-based Shinda are showing what the kids are really capable of, as Victoria Averill discovers The cacophony of downtown Nairobi pours through the 15th floor window of Corner House as 18-year-old Benson Osinyo perches on a stool and adds the finishing touches […]

Youthful Enterprise


Business Browser Every issue we review businesses, products and meet people behind key organisations across our network. ORGANISATION TO KNOW SAFARICOM is the largest telecommunications company in Kenya with close to 10m subscribers, or 80% of the country’s mobile market. Incorporated in 1997, it is also the most profitable company […]

Business Browser


SOS Children’s Villages SOS Children’s Villages – giving children hope SOS Children’s Villages is a worldwide social development NGO set up by Austrian doctor Herman Gmeiner just after the Second World War Its aim is to help children orphaned by war, famine or disease, as well as children whose parents […]

Airline



Would You Put Your BABY on the Catwalk? Damon Syson and his daughter Ava negotiate the dog-eat-dog world of baby modelling After a series of successful campaigns for top high street stores, my daughter Ava has just terminated her modelling career. We phoned her agency and told them she was resigning. […]

Baby Modelling