Keynote: 10,000 & Counting
When four Americans arrived in Kuria, Kenya in September 2008, they didn’t come giving away food, water or medicine, although thousands were suffering – and even dying – from chronic hunger, malaria, and diarrhea. Two years later in Kuria, farmers who before couldn’t harvest enough food to feed their own families are selling their surplus crops and saving the earnings; parents who were penniless are now able to pay the fees to send their kids to school; mothers who were giving contaminated water to their children are now serving clean water. How did this transformation happen? Can and will it persist?
Hear as Billy Williams, Grassroots Director of Nuru International, shares stories of how 10,000 Kurians have already been empowered out of extreme poverty - and how the impact is continuing to spread.
About Billy Williams
Billy is a husband, father, marathoner, writer, and passionate global poverty fighter born in the hills of Appalachia. He continues to make his home amid the natural beauty of West Virginia with his wife and two children.
Billy has more than 20 years of experience both leading and developing leaders from a wide array of career fields and professional disciplines including finance, healthcare, nonprofit, technology, and higher education.
Billy developed a hunger for listening to and telling good stories at a young age, and has been invited to share at events around the globe. He is passionate about seeing individuals and organizations transform themselves to bring their very best to make the world a better place, and is committed to doing the same in his own life.
Billy serves as Strategic Partnerships Director of Nuru International, a social enterprise working to equip marginalized farmers with the tools and knowledge they need to lead their families and communities out of extreme poverty for good. He also founded Archegos Coaching in 2016, an executive and leadership coaching company.
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