Carol Carper, Kenya Project Administrator and Co-founder

Carol is a born community organizer who manages the on-the-ground programs for Sasa Harambee in Kenya. Living full-time in Kenya, she is also the primary interface with the U.S. board and volunteers. She brings people together from both sides of the Atlantic under a shared vision of creating positive, proactive changes that drive sustainable community development.

Carol serves in many roles for Sasa Harambee, including:

Carol is a key visionary for the organization, creating new programs and approaches based on community input and observation.

• The primary role of Carol is developing partnerships with existing Kenyan Organizations/government and donors

• She supervises on-the-ground Kenyan staff.

• She evaluates and monitors the effectiveness of programs and leaders.

• Working side-by-side with George Oyeho, Carol assists the community in identifying needs and solutions to community challenges.

• She identifies and engages people and financial resources in Kenya, Europe, and the United States.

Joackim Ondiege - Coordinator of Sigomere Ward Organic Sustainable Agriculture Program

Joackim holds a diploma in agriculture, education, and extension. He sets goals and outcomes with farmer teachers for the program. “We need to develop a strategy that can help us retain the farmers we already have and recruit more. This will only be possible through trust in the services we provide and the outcomes to make sasa harambee one of the best organizations known for agriculture and the provision of advisory services to farmers. All will be possible and we hope for a success.”

• Supervises training and monitors activities of farmer teachers

• Responsible for long term curriculum planning and evaluation of the success of farmers

• Supervise marketing infrastructure in collaboration with the marketer for sales of bales of hay to dairy farmers.

• Oversees model farming at Aggregation Centre.

Sarah Awuor - Assistant Coordinator of Agriculture Programs

Sarah joined Sasa Harambee as a farmer in 2016. Prior to 2016, she harvested goods from her farm solely as a source of food, not as a profitable business. Due to her passion for farming, she managed to recruit a multitude of farmers around her neighborhood into the program to form a cohort. During this time, she became a Farmer Teacher and has since joined the Sasa Harambee leadership.

• Farmer Teacher supervision and working together with the coordinator to ensure that implementation of planned activities is achieved.

• She works closely with farmers and advises them on the right practices they should employ to meet their farming targets.

• She works with the coordinator to ensure that Farmer Teachers acquire the contents of the farming curriculum and disseminate to farmers effectively.

Dr. Dean McCall (The Board Chairman)

Dr. McCall is a consultant with a diverse blend of experience in engineering, business, and leadership.  His career spans three decades as a spacecraft Systems Engineer and engineering manager, addressing concepts up through the implementation of complex systems worth hundreds of millions of dollars.  His experience also includes business management, with a focus on operational cultures and efficiencies, development of intra-discipline processes, strategic planning and tactical execution, and project start-up.  Dean has a Doctor of Education Degree focused on Organizational Leadership, an MBA, and Masters and Bachelors degrees in Electrical Engineering.  He is also an active musician, writer, and loves living in Colorado with his wife Leonor McCall-Rodriguez, and their household of cats and dog.

Sasa Harambee has brought uplifting help to the people of Sigomere in Siaya County, Kenya, by teaching them how to generate and sustain small businesses that together benefit the greater good of the community.  Dean is joining Sasa Harambee because of its enabling approach, which rather than handing out resources from afar instead teaches the beneficiaries how to generate their own resources and look after their own well-being, and provides seed money to get them started.  Such a model lends itself to long-term self-sustainment and autonomy, which further leads to a stronger Kenya. 

Gail Frasier (The Board Secretary)

Gail Hudgins Frasier is a US citizen, lives in Colorado, and holds a degree in mathematics. She was a successful potter for 42 years during which time she met Carol Carper.

She met and married Bill Frasier in 1971. While their three children were young, Gail volunteered in their schools in every opening including on the school’s advisory board. She began an artist-in-residency program for the local elementary school. Gail served on the board of Art for the Mountain Community (now Sculpture Evergreen) and served as president, from 2012 to 2013.

Encouraged by their daughter, she participated in several Habitat for Humanity projects including 10 trips to Nogales, Mexico, with the Office of Peace and Justice, a teachers’ build in Paraguay, and a women’s build in Denver, Colorado, USA. At the age of 60, in 2007, Gail and Bill joined the Peace Corps and served in Jamaica for two years in community development. They remain in touch with their Jamaican friends.

Bill Frasier (The Board Treasurer)

Bill Frasier lived in Loveland, Colorado most of his youth and graduated from Colorado State University with a degree in Mathematics. He took time out during the middle of his college career to spend a year in VISTA in East St. Louis, Illinois. In 1978 Bill and his family moved to Evergreen, Colorado where they lived for 35 years. Bill spent the early part of his career doing Actuarial work in the life insurance business where he developed and priced life insurance products. The latter part of his career was spent working in the life reinsurance area where he helped design and negotiate both domestic and international reinsurance agreements.

Bill did a lot of volunteer work while living in Evergreen. He volunteered for a number of international Habitat projects including 8 trips to the Nogales, Mexico area and one trip to Paraguay. He was the co-founder of the West Jeff Girls Softball Association. He served on a number of Evergreen boards including Forest Heights Lodge, Evergreen Scholarship Bootstraps, and Blue Spruce Kiwanis (Treasurer). Beginning in July of 2007, Bill and his wife, Gail, spent 2 years in the Peace Corps in Jamaica.

He and Gail are retired and live in Loveland where they spend as much of their free time as possible playing pickleball.

Beverly (Bev) Goodrich:

I grew up in southern California, came to Colorado for college, and never left. My B.A. is from Colorado College (Anthropology). I did some graduate work at CU before moving to Grand Junction in 1971. I received my master’s degree in Adult Christian Community Development from Regis University. Subsequently, in 1990, I started the Grand Valley Peace & Justice Office and served the next 13 years as its director

In 2003 I moved from the Peace & Justice Office to become the Pastoral Assistant at our church, Immaculate Heart of Mary. In 2021 I helped Fr. Isaac Mungai Kariuki from Kenya lead a trip of about 10 people to Kenya.

I was greatly impressed by the people we met, by their energy, by the beauty of the countryside, by the universal hospitality, the history, arts and crafts, etc. We made friends there and now have a connection to Kenya beyond our friendship with Fr. Isaac.

The work being done by Sasa Harambee is impressive, and I like that projects and programs are driven by the people themselves rather than imposed by outsiders. This makes for sustainability. I hope I can contribute to the continued success of Sasa Harambee.