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Catherine Wambugu Entrepreneur

Location Bujumbura, Bujumbura, Burundi
Venture Industry Nonprofit/Social Enterprise
Languages spoken
  • English
Recent Activity

What I need help with

My background as an entrepreneur

My current challenges

My current challenges are getting board members,Volunteers (Physical and online) partners,sponsors or grants to help carry the vision. Other challenge is the start up of a Kids Haven/Wellness and Palliative Care Center and a Cancer Center in a new country( Burundi) and availability of cancer treatment locally which is leading to so many unnecessary deaths

Actions I’ve taken so far

Setup a Haven in Nairobi Kenya Through well-wishers and adopt a child program have managed to pay insurance fund for 27 kids battling cancer this year We have managed to reach out to 45 families with children battling cancer and we are walking the journey with them.

Start up Feeding Program at one of the hospitals in Burundi for kids battling Cancer and their caregivers. Offer accommodation to the kids and care givers who travel from upcountry for treatments or checkups and have no place to stay.

My future goals

My future goal is to build our own big,unique and unresistable Haven both in Kenya and Burundi,where families that have kids battling cancer can find solence during their journey of treatment. A place that will be a get away for kids when they have a treatment break and we can take care of them as their parents/ guardians get their free time to take care of themselves and the other siblings. One word for the Haven would be a Disney World Haven for kids battling cancer and other non communicable diseases.

Establishing a Cancer Center in Burundi

My motivations to work with a mentor

Help carry the vision and touch the life's of many more children


About my venture

Hope & Courage International

Am a Cancer Victor and founder of Hope & Courage International( HCI) Am organization that support kids battling cancer and other life limiting diseases in Kenya and Burundi. The Kids we support are from very vulnerable families. HCI has several programs HCI KIDS HAVEN( This is a play center where kids forget hospital, treatment and pain even for a day and just be kids. Here the kids connect,play, dance,play with colors and share there journeys with other kids going through the same journey. We offer a support forum for the kids and we walk with them,support through hospital Navigation, Hospital insurance Fund( annually for every child) and feed their families monthly. We also grant a wish. ( One child at a time and organise a grand wish for all the kids annually and mostly over Christmas. HCI purposes to build a Cancer and Hematology Center in Burundi which will be of so much help to children and adults who need cancer treatments and radiotherapy that are not available in the country

Countries of operation: Burundi, Kenya