Sickle Cell Warrior #8

10003 Sickle Cell Warrior #8

Stephen. B

36 Warrior Years

Whoever said "Age is nothing but a number" has never lived a day in their lives.

A husband, a father,a businessman and a warrior. Steve is the oldest warrior featured so far. Wisdom is gained through experiences lived and challenges conquered. Our bodies may fail us everyday but our minds and hearts should never cease to find hope in each day. Our lives expand and unfold in the direction of our minds. Dis-ease should not limit you in anyway, but inspire and drive you to overstand your body, do better and live healthy fulfilled lives.

Steve's words of wisdom to other warriors,

“I am 36 years old and I was born with Sickle Cell and I’m proud to be a warrior. I would like to tell people out there that Sickle Cell can live up to even 80 years or above. I would like to tell other warriors to avoid stress, eat well, keep warm, drink lots of fluids and life continues.”

Love Life!

Lea

Progress Report

This past week has been so busy for the team and I. On Friday the 3^rd of October we got officially accepted to the PAWA254 open membership and on Monday the 6^th we were officially welcomed. It was a great opportunity for us as we got free working space sponsored by PAWA254. In addition, we will be guided through our project and the myriad of people and talent that exists there is so impressive. It certainly does make for an amazing working space.

Fast forward to Friday the 10^th, we went for a Crowd Funding BootCamp at iHub* from 9am to 6pm. We were introduced to the 1% Club and The Cheetah Fund. Here we learnt about the importance of crowd funding, how to pitch ideas successfully, social media platforms to use, creative crowd funding and how to plan and present a crowd funding campaign. At the end of the day, we took home a successful campaign online and started getting some funds from supporters of the project.

And lastly, on Saturday the 11^th I attended the International day of the girl child at Nairobi’s Hilton hotel. Read more on it HERE.