KickStart International
Mercy Ngene has extensive experience in supply chain management, currently serving as Global Supply Chain Manager at KickStart International Inc. since July 2013, where responsibility includes overseeing the Supply Chain Team and optimizing production and sales ordering processes. Prior experience at KickStart International spans from January 1997 to June 2013, with roles including Supply Management Officer and Logistics & Stores Officer, focusing on forecast planning and logistics management. Initial career experience includes a position at Action Aid – Kenya in 1996 as a Savings & Credit Assistant. Mercy Ngene holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management with a focus on Purchasing & Supplies Management from Moi University, complemented by a diploma in Purchasing and Supplies Management from Kenya Institute of Management.
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KickStart International
KickStart’s mission is to get millions of people out of poverty quickly, cost effectively and sustainably. KickStart creates opportunities for poor, rural, entrepreneurial farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa to make money and offers a permanent solution to address the deepest root of poverty; lack of income. KickStart designs and mass markets simple, money-making tools that open up business opportunities for poor smallholder farmers. MoneyMaker brand, human powered, irrigation pumps are the most widely used of these products and provide an ideal and environmentally friendly solution that will quickly enable poor farming families to access water and grow crops. These low-cost ($35 and $100 USD) pumps are sold in local retail shops (KickStart works with factories, shippers, distributors and dealers to ensure that our pumps are made widely available and accessible to poor communities and in rural areas), and once purchased, enable farmers to move from rain-fed farming to irrigated agriculture at which point they can grow crops year-round and sell their crops at a profit during the dry season when prices are high. With increased income, they lift themselves out of poverty and improve their quality of life by being able to access: plentiful food, clean water, education for their children and healthcare for their families.