Founder

Ingrid Munro

Mama Ingrid Munro, was born on 25 March 1941 in Norrköping, Sweden, she is a Swedish architect who is the founder and manager Jamii Bora Trust a microfinance organization based in Nairobi, Kenya. Life Mama Ingrid trained as an architect and graduated at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 1964. From 1979 to 1984 she headed the Swedish council of building research, a government agency and the first woman in Sweden to do so at her age. The United Nations proclaimed 1987 to be the "International year of shelter for the homeless" and Mama Ingrid ,was appointed to convince governments to enact housing reforms. After her UN job a number of African governments offered her to lead the intergovernmental organization African Housing Foundation, which she led from 1988 till 1999. She then began her career as an advocate for the poor in Kenya, pressing for their right to housing. Her father was a missionary and medical doctor and a Missionary in present day Zimbabwe. She her is a Christian, and Jamii Bora equally serves the Christians and Muslims living in Kenya.

Biography

Mama Ingrid Munro, was born on 25 March 1941 in Norrköping, Sweden, she is a Swedish architect who is the founder and manager Jamii Bora Trust a microfinance organization based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Life
Mama Ingrid trained as an architect and graduated at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 1964.
From 1979 to 1984 she headed the Swedish council of building research, a government agency and the first woman in Sweden to do so at her age.
The United Nations proclaimed 1987 to be the “International year of shelter for the homeless” and Mama Ingrid ,was appointed to convince governments to enact housing reforms.
After her UN job a number of African governments offered her to lead the intergovernmental organization African Housing Foundation, which she led from 1988 till 1999. She then began her career as an advocate for the poor in Kenya, pressing for their right to housing.
Her father was a missionary and medical doctor and a Missionary in present day Zimbabwe. She her is a Christian, and Jamii Bora equally serves the Christians and Muslims living in Kenya.