Nairobi Governor, Mike Sonko, on Wednesday revealed that he would soon expand the services of his Rescue Team the larger East African Community region and later across Africa.
“I challenge those with means to help the less fortunate in society so as to make the world a better place. Barbaric practices have no place in the 21st Century,” Sonko stated after receiving an honorary award in Dubai on Wednesday.
Through the non-profitable organization, Sonko has touched thousands of poor Kenyans lives by helping them in various ways.
These include transportation of the bodies of their loved ones to various parts of the country, provision of clean water to slum-dwellers in Nairobi, provision of access to medical care both within Kenyan and abroad, education of the less fortunate and provision of access to legal services for those who cannot afford. Among others.
Sonko aims at having his organization be on the frontline in reforming African youth from crime, drugs and substances abuse amongst other vices while supporting them to establish sustainable income-generating programs in line with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, just like he has done in Kenya.
Recently, the team embarked on a program to fight for the rights of and support helpless widows and their children who have for many years been disinherited of their property due to archaic cultural practices.
In May, Sonko, through his team, airlifted eight-year-old, Haimanah Wairimu, to India for specialized treatment after being diagnosed with Metastatic Thyroid Carcinoma (cancer that develops from the tissues of the thyroid gland.)
Wairumu and her mother, Miswaleh Mlalanze, who stay in Embakasi, Nairobi, stayed in India for close to two weeks before returning to Kenya after successful treatment.
The Rescue team was founded over 10 years ago but was officially registered in 2013.
Sonko was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Excellence in recognition of his long-standing contribution in service to humankind. by the European Digital University at a ceremony held at the Dubai University Campus, Dubai.
During the event, he revealed that his strength to help the poor and needy in society came from the eternal principals of Vasudaiva Kadumbakam (meaning that the whole world is just one family).
“There comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness. That time is now,” Sonko quoted Kenya’s first Nobel Laureate, Wangari Mathai.
