DANSON AND SERAH KIUNDI FOUNDATION-BOOK RAFFLES
Richard Kiundi has created a noble and worthy program by establishing the Danson and Serah Kiundi Foundation in honour of his late Pioneer Christian parents in Machakos, Kenya. The foundation’s objectives are to assist Cancer disease sufferers and needy school children, among other charitable causes.
In this regard, Richard, my former classmate at Alliance High School, is conducting a book sales raffle program to raise funds to support the foundation’s objectives and promote book readership at affordable prices. The goals are noble and laudable because of their inherent goodness. There are many poor people today in difficult circumstances that are out of their control, with very little chance of help to get out of their circumstances. A scheme like this one will be a welcome relief to some such people in Kenya. Richard himself is a Cancer survivor and Warrior and knows first-hand the suffering involved and what a helping hand can do to alleviate the pain.
To learn more about the foundation and the book raffle and register to participate, please visit the foundation’s website at https://kiundifoundation.co.ke or download the Digital App at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.moracha.dansonfoundation and follow the prompts to register. However, briefly, the raffle works as follows:
Once you have registered, log in using your account credentials to go to the platform where you will find the books. Please scroll down and click on any book to buy a raffle ticket related to the book rather than the book itself. When you buy a raffle ticket, you gain a 1 in 25 chance of winning the book for which you purchased the ticket. For example, when you buy a ticket at Kes150 relating to the book How to Start and Run Your Own Business selling for Kes2,200, you acquire the chance to get the book for only Kes150 while supporting the Danson and Serah Kiundi Foundation, which helps cancer patients and needy school children. You can also win the book Personal Financial and Retirement Planning, which retails at Kes1,600, for a raffle ticket of Kes125.
To buy tickets, you must create and load a wallet with at least Kes100-Kes250, the ticket price range for most books. To create a wallet, you log in to your account on the foundation’s website or digital App, and this takes you to the landing page with featured books. Using the dropdown menu, you click “Transactions” followed by clicking “M-Pesa” (the App works with M-Pesa lines for now) and then follow the prompts to enter your telephone number and the amount you want to deposit. Enter your telephone number without the + sign, e.g. 2547zzzzzzzz or 2541zzzzzzzz (12 digits in all). When you click “Make Deposit,” you get a prompt on your telephone to enter your M-Pesa PIN to pay the ticket deposit to Philmar Enterprises Ltd, the promoter of the raffle.
To buy a ticket, you log into your account, scroll down the featured books on the Dashboard to select a book of your choice, click on the book or “Ongoing” or “Explore”, and follow the prompts to buy the ticket relating to the book using the deposit in your wallet. Suppose the book you want is not among the books on the Dashboard (featured books). In that case, you search the book by the title like How to Start and Run Your Own Business or Personal Financial and Retirement Planning and when the book pops up, you click the words “Ongoing” or “Explore” and follow the prompts to complete the ticket purchase.
You can purchase as many tickets as you wish for the same book or other books. Once done, you sit back and wait for the raffle results as soon as the preset number of tickets has been purchased. Nairobi-based winners will collect prizes from the Nuria Bookstore on the 1st floor of Bazaar Plaza, Moi Avenue. The Danson and Serah Kiundi Foundation will courier prizes to winners in other parts of the country.
The links below are for buying the books How To Start and Run Your Own Business and Personal Financial and Retirement Planning, and not about the book raffles.
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