Remembering Jill
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Some sad news: our Trustee and very dear friend Jill Simpson passed away on Wednesday last week, of a sudden and completely unexpected heart attack. We are devastated by her passing. Our thoughts are with her husband Angus and her entire family, and with all the hundreds of people she has helped through her tireless efforts to help her fellow Kenyans.. particularly with Saidia orphanage. Jill contributed in so many ways to KLT, particularly in her local knowledge and her enthusiasm and belief in what we are trying to accomplish with KLT libraries. Jill, you ARE missed.
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Founder and Director
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Anne Moore is a British citizen and a professional children's librarian, who has been living in Kenya since August 1999. Anne qualified with a B.A (Hons) degree in Librarianship and Information Science in 1981, and since then has worked in many places, from Beamish Open Air Museum in country Durham, to the Barbican Centre in London, to Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire library services in the UK. Anne left the UK with her family in 1994 to go to Papua New Guinea, where she did voluntary work with the National Library Service there, creating corporate-sponsored folding bookcases to send (stocked with books) to schools all over PNG. Anne was made a life member of the Friends of the PNG National Library Service for the work she did. In 2004 Anne was awarded an MBE by the Queen and the British Government for her work in both PNG and in Kenya.
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Staff & Trustees
Sheila Mmbijjewe (trustee)
Sheila is a Kenyan business lady, currently on the advisory committee for the Central Bank of Kenya. She is a director of Bamburi Cement, is on the Rhodes scholarship selection committee, and is on the Board of Governors of Kenton College. She is a chartered accountant by profession, and has worked in senior positions for Deloitte and Touche, Price Waterhouse Coopers and Standard Chartered Bank to name a few! She is also a Moran of the Burning Spear, an award given by the President of Kenya.
Wamaitha Mungai (trustee)
Wamaitha is a Kenyan business woman.
Jill Simpson (trustee)
Kenya born and educated. Did a nursing training in London and came back here... and here I am! Housewife, 3 kids, 9 grandchildren and almost 1 great-grandchild!! Working with under-privileged and often abused kids in Gilgil. (Jill is the founder of Saidia orphanage and school in Gilgil.)
Susan Phillips (trustee)
A journalist by training and most recently editor of a children's policy website in the U.S. A lifelong lover of libraries, I read about Anne and KidsLibs Trust in the Nation not long after moving to Nairobi. I contacted Anne about volunteering and began doing some informal creative writing work with children at Mathare North. Then I got involved in trying to help the Trust survive and grow (ie, raise money), which is less fun but probably more important. I'm proud to be a trustee, KidsLibs is terrific and life-changing and very much needed.
Phyllis Ikua Wanjiru (trustee)
Phyllis is a retired Kenyan executive who used to work in Nyayo House.
Smita Pandit (trustee)
Smita is married to a businessman, is a Mum to two boys, and is into meditation.
Accountants
Neil Jones Consultancy, Accounting and Financial Services,1st floor Rhino House, Karen Road, Karen, NAIROBI, KENYA. E mail: neil@nbjones.com
