Meet the Staff

We would like to introduce to you the staff of the Accounting Department at Yehu Microfinance. These are the wonderful people we work with everyday. They make Yehu run smoothly and the work they do allows over 12,000 people to work towards self-reliance. They have made us feel very welcome in Kenya and have taken good care of us.

Bernice Githinji is the first person we met when we arrived in Mombasa. She gave up a Saturday to pick us up from the airport and take us to the store for food. She has a good sense of humor and is strong in her opinions. She often speaks to us in Swahili because she thinks we should know the language already. She is the Assistant to the CEO and we’re not sure what she does everyday! :)

Kombe David Mathoh is the Accountant for Yehu. He is the fearless leader of the department. He is very kind and quiet and probably the busiest person here. Once when we needed to meet with him on a Tuesday to go over a report he said, “Okay, just a minute, I have to finish something, just a minute.” When we stayed until 6pm on Friday waiting for him to have time for us and he tried to tell us, “We’ll do it on Monday” we knew we had to be a little more insistent!

Phoebe Mwanjala has a great laugh. She is always welcoming and willing to help us learn whatever she is working on. (Note: We have found when a word ends in an “I” or “Y” the sound will often be left off. Example: One of the branches of the bank is in Mwambalazi, but people usually say Mwambalaz) One of our favorite things about Phoebe is that she says almost every day that she “is feeling dizz” when she gets tired or hungry. It makes us smile! Phoebe has a husband and a little boy that she misses at home.

Gerald Makonde Mshanga is “cool.” He loves to use that word and thinks things from the States are cool! He likes to try to speak with an American accent rather than the more common British accent but things usually come out half and half. He is a hard worker. Gerald loves ugali (a Kenyan staple we will show you later) and says it makes you strong and gives you lots of energy, so Justin should eat it everyday.

Maina is an intern like us. He is a local student in his second of six years of accounting school. He is always very polite and very quiet.

Adet Kache is Yehu’s CEO. He is very kind and always willing to help us at any hour of the day or night. He is completely devoted to the success of the bank. He is extremely motivated and hard-working. Adet arrives early and leaves late each day and we rarely see him at the office without and appointment because he is so busy and hard at work (hence, no picture yet).