Thread by @kk_ruto

Big shoutout & appreciation 🫂 to @USEmbassyKenya @USAmbKenya for betting on me & other scholars during my early days @educationusa inaugural class @knls_Nakuru ... a thread: Coming full circle 1/n

https://twitter.com/USEmbassyKenya/status/1526435745640112128

I’m so grateful for the top-tier guidance, & encouragement that literally unlocked the world for me! 2/n

Your support has meant everything to me: global impact @Haverford_cpgc & startup fellowships, a sabbatical, numerous awards, world-class scholarship, & more; all crescendoing to this momentous day🎊 @haverfordedu 3/n

(PSA) For any recent high school or college grad, please consider pursuing higher education in the United States or anywhere🌏; put yourself out there😉: 4/n

I highly recommend connecting with @educationusa; they’ll provide you with all the resources & support you need to make your dreams a reality! 5/n
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I’ve learnt & grown so much while @haverfordedu; it's such an honor to be inducted into a community of one of the most caring, passionate, intelligent, impact-conscious, and driven people I know, heck in the🗺️ 6/n

It’s @haverfordedu where I got an education that didn't aim to just make me a good student/a good fit for big tech but truly developed me as a critical thinker with child-like curiosity, a visual artist, a storyteller, an engineer, & an emerging young leader. #LivesThatSpeak 7/n

So, what next? (cc @waitbutwhy) 8/n

I’m stoked to join the Haverford Incubator ‘22 working fulltime as the lead technical PM @Flux_Impact where we build affordable software tools contextualized for utilities in emerging markets🚀 #buildinpublic #digitalnomad 9/n

How? 10/n

@Flux_Impact rehabilitates & digitizes aging debilitating & disjointed, leaky analog water systems at scale, across emerging markets, starting in East Africa. 11/n

@Flux_Impact uses data-driven methods to build inexpensive B2B software, hardware & analytic tools to serve struggling neglected water utilities.

Eliminate 100% of all water lost + Account for every single drop of water in real-time == improved access to water for all. 12/n

To what end? 13/n

24/7 access to clean water and sanitation is a critical but severely neglected requisite to radically improving the quality of life & health of millions of people living in emerging markets. 14/n

So that people living in communities, like the one my family & I, grew up in, can finally have reliable access to quality water and sanitation, education, health care, & other basic services that we often take for granted especially across the global North. 15/n

We’re on an audacious mission @Flux_Impact to rapidly transform utility revenues, operational efficiency and near real-time field visibility, all still unprecedented🚀...one utility at each community, at a time. 16/n

Want to perhaps follow along on this exciting journey, chat, support my scholarship, collaborate, fund or to join us?🤩

Please follow me on here & sign up to receive updates or job listings, we’re hiring very soon🌠:
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VIVA to all of you wonderful individuals, friends, professors, organizations, and communities; it has truly taken a global village to get me here... 18/n

...the unique opportunities afforded to me & to paying it forward through our inaugural '19 Kiota fellowship dedicated to honoring the resilience and success of many other young people like myself💐🎉 19/n

“Today, Africa looms as the greatest commercial, industrial and political prize in the world.” - Marcus M. Garvey (1887-1940)

This is our time.

Asante!

FIN.