STAFF-CFK-KENYA

Salim Mohamed
Executive Director

Salim has been with CFK since its founding in 2001.  Salim was abandoned by his mother and spent the first four years of his life on the streets of Nairobi with his grandmother, a vegetable hawker. When Salim turned five, his grandmother took him to Mama Fatuma Children’s Home. In 1988 Salim joined the MYSA, a nascent youth sports association in Mathare founded by a United Nations Development Program advisor.  At 16-years-old, Salim led an organization with over 2,000 members and an annual budget of over $150,000. After graduating from high school, Salim was hired by MYSA as a full-time HIV/AIDS project officer. The British Council has twice employed Salim as a consultant to help launch youth sports associations in Ghana and Nigeria. In 2002, he was nominated to serve on the Diversity for Peace Advisory Board with Nobel Peace Laureates Oscar Arias Sanchez, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, and Norman Borlaug.  Most recently, Salim presented at the International AIDS Conference in Thailand and was selected to participate in the YES! Jams Conference in Senegal.  Salim was also selected as a TED Conference Africa Fellow for 2007.