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First Lady Margaret Kenyatta yesterday received more than Sh163 million to support this year’s Beyond Zero Marathon slated for March 10.
Besides the cash donations from Beyond Zero’s traditional and new partners, sponsors and supporters, the First Lady also received additional support from Chinese firm, Huawei Technologies, who presented 50 laptops.
Receiving the donations in an event that marked her first official engagement this year, the First Lady said the Beyond Zero healthcare initiatives, including the recently launched medical safaris, have had a huge impact on health delivery to vulnerable populations especially in hard-to-reach parts of the country.
“The impact on the ground is truly amazing. You can feel it and you can see it,” said the First Lady.
The First Lady said her current focus is on obstetric fistula, a condition she said continues to frustrate many poor women in the country.
Corporate donors
The corporate donors included the Commercial Bank of Africa which gave Sh30 million, Co-operative Bank of Kenya (Sh20 million) and Kenya Commercial Bank (Sh20 million.)
Others were MediaMax (Sh25 million), Kass (Sh20 million), Nation Group (Sh10 million), Capital FM (Sh12 million) and the Standard Group (Sh5 million)
Magnate Ventures and Reelforge gave Sh5 million each, the Kenya Women Finance Trust (Sh3 million), Coca Cola (Sh3 million) and Africa and Parapet Cleaning Group (Sh2 million).
Other donors were the Philips Group (Sh1.8 million) and Toyota Kenya (Sh1.5 million)
The corporate donors affirmed their support for Beyond Zero’s healthcare initiatives, including mobilising employees to take part in the marathon that will start and end at the Nyayo National Stadium.
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