About Susan
Meet Susan
I have lived and worked in Kibera for years. I built Sats4Safari because I wanted visitors to encounter this community honestly — not through the lens of poverty tourism, and not through a polished pitch. The walk is my attempt to offer something more useful: direct experience, real context, and space to think.
Susan's perspective
I want every guest to leave knowing something specific about Kibera — not just having had an experience.
When visitors come to Kibera, they often arrive with a fixed idea of what they will see. I started Sats4Safari to disrupt that. Kibera is not only a place of hardship. It is a place where people are building, experimenting, and creating systems that work for them — including a Bitcoin circular economy that has been noticed by Forbes, the BBC, and the Associated Press. I want guests to see both the reality and the ingenuity.
How I guide
I guide through direct relationships with the merchants and community members we visit — not through a script. What you hear on the walk comes from those relationships, not from a tourism brief.
Why this work matters
Kibera is already in the international press for its Bitcoin circular economy. I want visitors to understand that story from the inside — with the nuance, the challenges, and the real people behind it.
Susan's story
The work behind the walk
Before you book, here is what shaped this walk: where Susan comes from, how she got involved in Bitcoin education, and what she is trying to offer guests who come with genuine curiosity.
Why I created Sats4Safari
When visitors come to Kibera, they often arrive with a fixed idea of what they will see. I started Sats4Safari to disrupt that. Kibera is not only a place of hardship. It is a place where people are building, experimenting, and creating systems that work for them — including a Bitcoin circular economy that has been noticed by Forbes, the BBC, and the Associated Press. I want guests to see both the reality and the ingenuity.
How Bitcoin entered my work
My work in Bitcoin education came out of watching what Afribit was building in Soweto West — seeing garbage collectors taught to use Lightning wallets, then teaching their neighbours, then those neighbours teaching theirs. That peer-to-peer model is not a quirk. It is the reason adoption has held. I got involved because I believed in the approach and wanted to help connect that story to the visitors who were already curious about it.
What I invite you into
On the walk, I do not tell guests what to think. I bring them to the people and the places, I provide context, and I stay close enough to answer questions honestly. The walk works best when guests come with curiosity and leave with more specific knowledge than they arrived with — not just a feeling, but an understanding.
Guiding principles
What guides this work
Community first, not spectacle
I invite guests into context and conversation, not spectacle. The walk is paced around respect for place and the people who live and work here.
Education through real examples
I explain Bitcoin through normal exchanges, merchant questions, and practical observation instead of abstract theory.
Respectful storytelling with local context
I use local knowledge to replace stereotypes with a more grounded understanding of Kibera and the people shaping daily life here.