CitiBank recognises animator in 2014 awards
Pedestrians walk past a Citibank branch. American financial institutions dominated the top three slots in this year’s Euromoney Awards for excellence. PHOTO | FILE |
What you need to know:
- Mr Gitonga, who runs Fatboy Animations, a 3-Dimension graphic and visual animator, took the Platinum Award beating a pool of 186 entries and a final shortlist of 20 contestants nominated by local microfinance firms.
Animator Moses Gitonga has scooped the 2014 entrepreneurship award in this year’s Citi Micro Award (CMA) for entrepreneurs.
Mr Gitonga, who runs Fatboy Animations, a 3-Dimension graphic and visual animator, took the Platinum Award beating a pool of 186 entries and a final shortlist of 20 contestants nominated by local microfinance firms.
He was feted for adopting innovative approaches in driving business success and deploying use of information communication technologies to create new products and a market for its products and services.
Other entrepreneurs who were feted include Moses Njiriri who trades in avocadoes and fruits in Mai Mahiu, Hellen Odhiambo, a Kisumu-based wholesaler, Protus Onywere, a weighing scale maker, Zipporah Mwikali, a maize miller from Machakos and Grace Muthoni Ngao who runs a school in Mikindani, in Mombasa. Jubilant Kenya emerged as the most innovating mocrofinance institution of the year beating 21 others.
“As the microfinance sector in Kenya continues to grow and empower more micro entrepreneurs, it is the success stories behind the numbers that prove the power of microfinance to transform and improve lives,” Central Bank governor Njuguna Ndung’u, who was the chief guest, said.
The CMA award is hosted jointly by CitiBank Kenya and the Association of Micro Finance Institutions. It recognises upcoming small entrepreneurs in Kenya especially those who have put to good use the money they have borrowed from micro-finance institutions.
