ENGR. OKU KANAYO EGBENI is Director and Co-Founder of Children In Freedom School (CIFS). He is a Nigerian British and resident in Kenya. He holds a BSc and MSc in Computer Engineering from the University of Benin and University of Dalarna and is a senior associate member of the British Computer Society. After more than a decade in Europe as a Business strategist and ICT Consultant for companies such as Hewlett Packard and Virgin Media [partnering with teams in England, Italy, Libya, Nigeria, and Sweden]; he relocated back to Kenya with his wife at the beginning of 2014 to serve African children. Together they established an international NGO called Children In Freedom (registered in Kenya and USA). Their work has directly touched the lives of over 300 children through scholarship and mentorship, and mentored more than 10,000 others. Oku is a polymath. His multifaceted talents have seen him design the school's architecture and lead in its engineering and construction from scratch. He has established an innovative e-learning platform for the school; this facilitated a continuation of learning even during the covid-19 lockdown in 2020. His passion in IT has seen him teach programming at CIFS to children 5 years and above. He has started holistic projects at the school like fish and chicken farming, programming, engineering, and cooking. He is a great cook and personally trained the school’s kitchen staff; CIFS is famous for its delicious food. Oku is deeply Pan African and has committed his life to building African children to reach the highest expression of themselves, and partner with or lead their peers from all over the world.
