Our Kenyan Partners
Peter Ingosi - Program Director
peterkhamusali@yahoo.com
Peter holds a Masters degree in Community Development, a diploma in Sustainable Development, and a B.S. in Animal Husbandry. He benefits from years of fieldwork and 
hands-on development training utilizing a number of participatory development approaches.
Commitment to Community Development
For the past five years, Peter has acted as a Program Director for the Foundation for Sustainable Development. He is a native to the Shikokho, Kakamega community and currently serves as the volunteer Organizational Development Advisor to the Shikokho Community Development Projects.
Volunteer Consultant and Supervisor
With experience and familiarity with the community, Peter often serves as a volunteer consultant and supervisor for community development projects implemented by outside agencies.
Peter is married with three sons and a daughter.
Emma Sisia - Program Coordinator
emmasisia@yahoo.com
Born in the Vihiga district in Western Kenya, Emma earned a Bachelor of Arts degree (Sociology and Kiswahili) from the University of Nairobi.
Emma is the acting Chairperson of the District Social Development Committee.She is responsible for monitoring and evaluating funded projects for the groups. Emma has 
been involved in training women entrepreneurs in strengthening their capacities. Currently Emma is a volunteer with HIV voluntary and testing centers located in Kakamega where she provides voluntary counseling.
Kenya Finland Company , Socio-economic Officer
While working with Kenya Finland, she organized communities into self help groups to participate in construction and management of water points and assistance in starting income generating activities to raise funds for maintenance of their water points.
Annette Russ - Founder and Executive Director
annettelillyruss@yahoo.com
Annette earned B.A. degrees in Education and Business from Montana State University. She grew up near the border of Yellowstone National Park where her family owned and operated a fly fishing business. Her career in women’s empowerment began in 1973 when she designed and taught the first fly fishing course for women in the US.
Fulfilling a Lifelong Dream
After retiring in 2003, with over 22 years of experience as a CPA, Annette fulfilled her lifelong dream of volunteering in Africa. In 2006, she traveled to Kenya where she
worked as a business trainer and consultant with a unique micro finance program whose clients were people infected or affected by HIV/AIDS.
Her work in Kenya evolved into a personal quest to bring hope and change to one of the country’s biggest assets:its young women. Subsequently, it grew into a vision of a new generation of women in Kenya who have the knowledge, skills, self esteem and resolve to be active participants in the economic and social development of their country.
Working at the grass roots level with locals on the ground and enlisting financial support from her friends in the U.S., in June 2008 founder Annette Russ and her Kenyan colleagues created a program that will enable women to become economically independent and vital to the economic and social development of their country.
