Veronica Kabaki
Executive Director

Veronica graduated in 2009 from Laymans Bible College organized by Faith Christian Center where she is a member and serves in the Usher and Hostess Department. She has also worked for several American companies including health facilities and she has always admired the high quality healthcare that is available in the United States. It is not comparable to the healthcare situation in Kenya.
Hundreds of renal failure patients continue to die in Kenya because either they do not have access to a dialysis clinic or they cannot afford to pay the high costs charged by the few available dialysis clinics in the country. Between 2010 and 2011, Veronica lost three close family members because they could not afford to continue paying for the high cost of dialysis treatments in Kenya. She decided to so start Kijiji International as a nonprofit organization with the goal of helping to stop unnecessary loss of life by providing high quality dialysis care especially to the poor in the underserved areas in Kenya.
Veronica has made a decision to dedicate the rest of her life for this much needed cause.
Poppy AJ Sorrels, RN, CNN, CLNC
Administrative Director

Poppy continued her professional activities in the nephrology arena for the next many years, becoming a Certified Nephrology Nurse (CNN) in 1999. She consulted with manufacturers and legislators in promoting the use of CAPD in under-served areas and traveled extensively, educating the international nephrology community and promoting the utilization of CAPD She helped open several dialysis facilities for independent nephrologists as well as Large Dialysis Organizations (LDO) throughout the state of Texas. Poppy later launched her own business as a nephrology nurse consultant in 2003 and became a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant (CLNC) in 2007. Her business focused on consulting with the state licensing agency to assist and monitor dialysis facilities that had been found deficient in the standards and regulations for care of dialysis patients. She also consulted with medical case management departments of various insurance companies. Poppy looks forward to utilizing her gifts to assist in the important medical arena of nephrology and dialysis in Kenya, as part of her personal mission to “provide healing and wellness in the suffering and needy through advocacy, compassion, education, service and support”.
Ashley Evans
Member – Board of Directors

Ashley currently holds the position of President Elect for the Jacksonville Professionals Chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB-USA) that is currently providing environmental engineering work in rural Guatemala; where she has performed field work, engineering designs, and construction of water distribution and sanitation projects. In 2010, Ms. Evans was awarded the Young Engineer of the Year Award from EWB. Ashley is also a board member of the World Water Alliance of Florida where she currently serves as Secretary and leads fundraising efforts for water and sanitation projects in developing countries around the world. Ms. Evans also volunteers for the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) where she is a member of the Education Committee.
As a board member of Kijiji International, Ashley provides insight to engineering, fundraising, and partnerships with other non-profits to successfully design and build dialysis clinics in Kenya.
Dan Hewitt
Member – Board of Directors

Services, Inc. This firm is dedicated to providing quality reconditioned renal equipment to regions of the world that otherwise could not afford renal care. Prior to working in the medical equipment field, he managed American Mortgage’s Capital Markets Division from 2005 to 2010. Mr. Hewitt graduated Summa Cum Laude from Arizona State University with a B.S. in Business.
Phyllis Johnson
Member – Board of Directors

Dr. Dewey E. Painter Sr.
Member – Board of Directors

as pastor and as a missionary for many years. Dr. Painter has led mission efforts in over seventy seventy countries and has direct involvement in establishing educational, orphanages and mission/church planting in various countries.
He currently serves as a member or chairman of the Board of Directors from research to education and ministries. He is the Executive Director of the International Education and Professional Association and has published seven books and is currently writing four new manuscripts. Dr. Painter has built long-standing relationships with several hospitals in the US and he looks forward to help Kijiji International get dialysis machines, reverse osmosis machines and medical supplies.