Meet Our
Team

Francis Kioni is the current Treasurer for Moving Mountains in Kenya and sits on the Board.

Kioni originally started working with us back in the mid-nineties when he was living in Kibera, he helped on all our building projects in the Kibera slum and at ‘Rowallan’ Scout Centre on the outskirts of Nairobi, next to Kibera, where our early international development trips built clinics, developed water projects and helped on regeneration projects within the slum.

Quickly becoming a firm favourite, he was and still is our go to ‘wise man’, there will never be a situation or problem that cannot be improved by spending a short time asking Kioni for his advice and as such, he is very much the father figure of Moving Mountains Kenya.

Kioni is also our project manager, he spends a lot of time visiting previous, current and possible future projects with the Moving Mountains Community Action Team (group of former street children who work on all our Moving Mountains projects in Kenya and Tanzania) and is a well known and highly respected figure across East Africa, sitting on the board/committee of a number of school/community groups.

After the post-election violence in Kenya in late 2007/early 2008, Kioni moved his family out of Nairobi and built a new home and life just outside Naro Moru town on the lower slopes of Mount Kenya where he used his knowledge of the building trade to set up a suppliers shop which his wife manages.

Joseph Mungai is the current Secretary for Moving Mountains in Kenya and sits on the Board. He currently manages the overall financial affairs of the NGO.

He lives in Nairobi and coordinates all the medical programmes in East Africa, including Medical Elective students, vaccination programmes and our relationships with the clinics and hospitals which are supported by Moving Mountains in Kenya.

Joseph is also active during the school and university trips in Kenya and has built up a strong working relationship with our team in Tanzania where he has led a number of international development trips on the lower slopes of Kilimanjaro at Ng’aroni Primary School, the location of our first Moving Mountains project in Tanzania.

Gilbert Njeru is the current Chairperson of Moving Mountains in Kenya.

He lives in Embu at our guesthouse and manages the Moving Mountains programmes there, plus all the volunteers and medical elective students who come to this part of Kenya. He is also active during the school and university trips, often helping to guide on Mount Kenya (over 40 successful summits of Point Lenana to his name). Despite the numerous ascents on Mount Kenya it wasn’t until 2015 that he got the opportunity to climb Mt Kenya’s bigger brother, Kilimanjaro… which he successfully summited with an Adventure Alternative team.

Gilbert is the self-proclaimed ‘King of Embu’ and an enthusiastic member of staff with a great sense of humour and infectious personality. He never fails to leave a big impression on everyone he meets and even before getting involved with Moving Mountains had dedicated his life to making positive changes in the lives of all the street children in Embu and now all the children, communities and projects supported and developed by Moving Mountain across East Africa.