Jude Ndambuki
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OUR FOUNDER - JUDE NDAMBUKI
While walking one evening in Dobbs Ferry, Jude spotted a lone computer tower sitting next to a dumpster. On impulse, he brought the tower home, played with it and realized that it still worked. The computer sat for a few days until Jude had a dream one night that he sent the computer over to Kenya to his former community in Machakos town and was teaching some kids how computers worked.
From that moment on, the wheels were set in motion and Help Kenya Project was born. Jude began to solicit the Community for no-longer-needed computers and with the help of some of his students. Over time, and with their own money, Jude and Bernadette, Jude's wife, had sent over 1,500 computers to Kenya.
In 2009, one of Jude's students nominated him as a CNN Hero. Jude began to receive accolades and inquiries from people all over the world who had seen the CNN piece.
Jude is a native Kenyan born in August, 1958. He has spent the past 13 years teaching chemistry at the Master’s School in Dobbs Ferry, New York. He and his wife Bernadette, also a native Kenyan, who worked until recently as an accountant at the German School in White Plains, New York, met in the 5th grade at Methuma Primary School in Machakos town and have been together ever since. Jude and Bernadette, along with their two teen-aged children, David and Mary, are currently taking a sabbatical in Kenya, where they are all working to advance Help Kenya Project’s mission.
