Professional History
CURRENT POSITION(S)
PATRON | WHITE RIBBON ALLIANCE NAIROBI, KENYA Social Development and Community Services White Ribbon Alliance – Kenya that aims at preventing maternal deaths through initiating safe motherhood programs
PATRON | FREEDOM FROM FISTULA FOUNDATION NAIROBI, KENYA Social Development and Community Services Freedom from Fistula Foundation that aims at creating awareness of the causes, preventions and cure for those afflicted
PATRON | KENYA BREAST HEALTH ORGANIZATION NAIROBI, KENYA
Social Development and Community Services COUNCIL MEMBER | MASENO UNIVERSITY KISUMU, KENYA
Academia, Education and Training CHAIRMAN | ADVISORY BOARD | PARAPLEGIC ASSOCIATION OF KENYA NAIROBI, KENYA
Social Development and Community Services PATRON | KENYA MEDICAL WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION NAIROBI, KENYA
Social Development and Community Services FOUNDER | IDA ODINGA TRUST NAIROBI, KENYA
Social Development and Community Services To ensure the success of the girl child in schools. “Education of women holds the key to fast and accelerated growth of any society that aims to meet the Millennium Development Goals.” She says ” It is good to have a wife, but it is even better to have an educated wife.”
PREVIOUS POSITION(S) MANAGING DIRECTOR | EAST AFRICA SPECTRE KISUMU, KENYA
2003 Manufacturing and Industrial CHAIRMAN AND FOUNDER
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS (KENYA) NAIROBI, KENYA
1991 – 2012 Social Development and Community Services As the former chairperson of the League of Kenya women voters, Dr Ida has devoted her efforts to provoke women to aspire for leadership especially under the current constitutional dispensation which reserves a special ratio for gender. She wanted to see women end decades of poverty, humiliation, human rights abuses, violence and economic blackmail through participating in the ballot. She still is very influential in pushing women to plunge into political activism in order to make that change and the struggle for women continues
TEACHER | GEOGRAPHY | KENYA HIGH SCHOOL NAIROBI, KENYA | 1976 Academia, Education and Training Later became Head of the Geography Department