{"id":2649,"date":"2025-06-03T09:06:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T16:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=2649"},"modified":"2025-06-11T10:08:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T17:08:04","slug":"kennedyodedenyt","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/stories\/kennedyodedenyt\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Mandela Prize Recipient Kennedy Odede Shares His Experience in the New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2013 New Voices Senior Fellow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/our_fellows\/kennedy-odede\/\">Kennedy Odede<\/a> and the organization he founded, Shining Hope for Communities in Nairobi (SHOFCO), were recently featured in a New York Times article entitled \u201cKenya Is Desperate to Pay Off Staggering Debt. Its Workers Are Paying the Price.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The article anecdotally explores the effects of the new Kenyan government fees as well business and excise taxes levied to pay off its foreign debt on small businesses and non-profits like SHOFCO.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kennedy Odede was recently selected as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/mandeladay\/mandela_prize_2025.shtml#:~:text=The%202025%20Prize%20is%20awarded,a%20group%20of%20eminent%20persons.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 recipient of the United Nations Nelson Mandela Prize<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read the full article below.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","publication_category":[46,48],"publication_theme":[54,71],"class_list":["post-2649","stories","type-stories","status-publish","hentry","featured-featured","publication_category-features","publication_category-news-piece","publication_theme-economic","publication_theme-leadership"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/2649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_category?post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"publication_theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_theme?post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}