53-year-old Wahu Kaara, an internationally recognised activist who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize last year, strives to promote provisions to ease the spread of AIDS and resources enough to officially bolster the Third World.
But in the midst of her fierce fight against poverty and social injustice, Kaara, who practices her faith in the Presbyterian Church in Nairobi, claims that “Jesus Christ is the best model” and an “anchor” for her cause.
Kaara said: “My anger on social injustice is my tears and pain for humanity. It is leading us to our destruction. Yet, God had and continues to have such a wonderful design and purpose for all of us if only we choose to manifest his glory. My choice and prayer is that he continues to give me strength, wisdom, commitment to stand up and say injustice is a sin, which we must confess and repent. ... This gives me fresh energy to carry on.”As the executive director of Kenya Debt Relief, a branch of the All-African Conference of Churches in Nairobi, and former ecumenical coordinator of the Millennium Development Goals project put forth by the United Nations, Kaara continues to press governments to lend real support to the world’s 81 poorest nations.
In the mean time, Kaara has grown competent in macro and microeconomics as well as political science and social systems. “Politics is much more than voting in periodic elections. And economics is more than graphs, curves, statistics and indicators. It’s about people’s lives...”
Having played an essential role to the Global Call to Action Against Poverty campaign whose members protested at the G8 conference in July in Edinburgh, Scotland, for an end to poverty, Kaara travels internationally at least three months a year, committed to educating the global public about the ramifications of blind capitalism.
