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Dishon Kirima BSc (Hons), International Business Administration
Project Director, Kenya

EDW and Dishon Kirima are collaborating on the development of a Vocational and Enterprise Training Institute in Kabete Kiambu, Kenya.

This project aims to promote entrepreneurial skills, open up business opportunities for young people, and develop appropriate specialist business support services. Following the successful establishment of this youth entrepreneurship model, it is intended to pilot more such centres, with the ultimate goal of national implementation. 

A graduate of the United States International University in Nairobi, Kenya, Dishon is a professional member of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists and Managing Director of Youth Core Limited, a company which is committed to enabling and empowering young people setting up in business. He is President of the National Youth Parliament in Kenya and also sits on the Board of Trustees.

Dishon has specialist experience designing and marketing financial products and services within the banking industry, having worked for Standard Chartered Bank and Imperial Bank.  He is also well versed in financial compliance. 

Dishon is currently involved in an ambitious project which aims to raise US $5 million to promote innovation and invention in Africa. The Innovation Development Fund for Africa aims to help innovators make appropriate links with the commercial and industrial sector, while benefiting financially from their inventions or innovations.

Dishon is also working with Compliance Solutions and the Kenya Institute of Bankers on the development of a comprehensive training package for forty-five commercial banks, in preparation for the passing by Parliament of the forthcoming Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Bill, 2008 and the creation of a Financial Reporting Centre by the Central Bank of Kenya. Dishon is also Editorial Director of Compliance News, a monthly anti-money laundering professional publication.

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