 Na kwa mhenmengene kejini kwa kwa kambu ibuilive Aguyea, mahenmene kwa uwtua queue na hradmisha kani, kwa kumalசi kwa handaiki na wajahasha jilipa. Kwa na kwa bilii, kwa kutapandaa kwa katsandaa na kwa kini na kwa kuxa. Kayo kwa kaitawe j distribute kwa konda niri. It was a very old cotton generation there in a small village where about 10 or 12 Indian families were there. Some trading and some working in the generation. That is where I was born. We had a very different background which was difficult even with the little money to survive for school fees. So it was difficult for me because we had a class 5 in village. So then we had to go to the secondary school in Kisumu. So I tried to have to go in boarding but it was difficult to get sometimes a fee for boarding. My father was working in the shop with some salary of 3 to 5 and 300 filling at that time. So I decided let me try so I was staying in one of my relative place for one year. So after standard 6 then I tried to complete 7 but it was difficult because about all the finance problem and to get boarding. The difficult situation obliged the order to drop out of school and as a result he decided to venture into business as a confectionary hawker. So then I said what to do so I was trying to help one shopkeeper and learn what they are doing. Finally I said why don't I start mine? Because I found a local our colleagues Jalwo Kijana on my age. They were selling things buying from here and selling on the street. So I said let me also start selling and join them. So I joined them to sell the sweets at the market near the petrol station near the bus whenever it is there. So then the sweets every day now to start sweets was 4 filling 3 fillings 80 cents I didn't have. In 1963 the Kenyan independence day he says was a big break for him. In 1963 that's why I never forget our independent day. That was a great day a great time. Not only that the whole that week of 1963 were independent. So what I decided that the badges at that time people wanted that badge and flag of independence. So near that petrol station I was selling the flag putting on the windscreen and the badges because a lot of people coming for Christmas time. So that is where selling that sticking that badge I made 520 fillings. And because these Indians were whole sellers were afraid they left that town they went to Kisum because people were worried you know. But I was lucky because no shops were opening. So I got a chance instead of 10 chance for one flag I put in the windscreen and people pay me 50 shelling. He later on joined hands with his dad where he was offered a job worth 150 Kenyan shelling per month. Daouda saved some of it and later on used it to acquire a pickup truck that helped him in his business. My father convinced me and to join where he was working they needed main power. So I joined to work there and I was being trained now to all this kind of work in the store in the shop. Staking doing that. So I got 150 selling salary. So I sold my things to they bought my things. I put first my account in Barclays and put 512 fillings in my Barclays. And because I didn't knew very much to write so I told them let me have this open for me in 19. That was 1964-65. So then I got a job. In Job now I learn a lot of sales because I used to go with my salesman as a driver and I was going with him as to help him. So I learned how to do the marketing. So there where it helped me because in root sales and everywhere in the pickup with my boss. I mean as a driver but he was a man and I was going to also convince customers. So in 1969 somewhere in April I left the job and I said let me start my own. Now because I know the customers and I will make more money and that is where I was blessed by my people, our local, my old, I would say we were all citizens. I was born and brought up there. So all my brothers of Luos and having shops. So they trusted me. I said now I am starting my own. I had some small pickup which was not well doing. It was to repair it. I took it against my salary and I started selling on the supplying to the shop. When his business began picking on well, Dawooda took up the responsibility of educating his siblings. So I go kisumu, I buy goods, I go yala, I bring jagiri. So I started making at least daily more than 200 actually. 150, 200. I'm a turnboy, I'm a driver. So I can make at least sometimes 100, sometimes 200. So in one month I can make 4 to 5,000 actually. So that makes me after 4-5 months I bought another big now kus the orders were made up to Asembo, Bondu, all that. Up to Hosea money, up to Busea border, on this side up to Asembo and all that area. Because that was a sadistic. So I was working and going there. So that made me now to have that yes, and I told my parents and my father always. I said we were 11 in our family, brothers and sisters. So I said I will make sure that they all go to them, finish their education. And with the blessings of my parents and people around me, I was succeeded. He also took over a retail shop from an Indian owner who had put it up for sale in their village. There was a exodus of Indian sum going to UK. So I was left there and some Indian was trying to sell his shop which I took over. That is where now I become a businessman, fully with my own shop in the name of HP Dowda. So that is where my journey started beginning very well in 1969. So from there now I had a good chance to supply more goods having the shop. So customer supply has trusted me from Kisumu giving me a little credit. And that is how life started very well. In 1974 he built a holo factory a jagremollasis factory that runs to date in partnership with his friend Albert. 1974-75 because I was selling lot of sukhari guru, jagri. And it was coming from Yala and Butere so I said let me put a jagri factory with one my partner called Albert Namtendavere. So he was quite engineer somewhere so I said this is your land in Ugunja and Rangala. So he became 50-50% partner. He contributed land and I didn't had little money so one of the chief gave me a little loan. Chief came up and I had only 5,000 and we started a small scale industry. That is now industry best started. Due to the good virtues touched by his parents and his experience with the pains of poverty Dawido chose to convert his servants quarters within uholo factory into a children's home and a charity centre which is currently run by the Kenyan government. From my jagri it is still there and the jagri name was uholo jagri factory and still if you go Rangala towards Busia there is a structure there on the river and the right hand side was my servant quarters people which we converted it to the mental handicapped disabled home shifted to Kisumu. That story will come later on. Here that place I am using for charity I gave now government also is running partly I had another 5 acres extra for farming so recently I gave to them that to this we started with 22 children now they are about 150 and now it is managed by government but you know money shortage so my brother called Yogesh in Kisumu he is managing as a trustee so when there is a shortfall so that is my charity thing started from that time In 1986 after moving to Nairobi he established Jumbo biscuits Limited a confectionary maker under the house of Dawooda group of companies In 1986 I shifted to Nairobi and my brothers were managing all other business in Kisumu and I shifted though it is a family business I stayed in Nairobi and I started a biscuit factory and I named it Jumbo biscuit In the mid 1990s he moved to Uganda where his son was and started Bitana Allied Industries Limited he has since established other companies in both Kenya and Uganda we had opportunity in Uganda so my son came from when he was in London we decided my brother to call him we were supplying goods in Uganda so my son went there called Vinay and we started even business there and we did also biscuit factory there called Bitania so we were now two places and we started fruit juice and splash and fruit processing plant in Uganda and here later on I got opportunity there was a salt factory in Malindi which was in a problem with the finance, the bank so also I bought that company with some share partners and then I own it 100% slowly slowly we agreed because it was in Gongoni near Malindi called Mombasa salt original was Fundiza salt but I changed it to Mombasa so that was my industrial batch site and at that time I was doing well and we started Uganda and then I also shifted to help my son in Uganda from 8, 7 to 8, 7 years 6 to 7 Dauda together with his partners later on revived house of Manji that was then under receivership Manji biscuit was in receivership while this government was changing when Moe ex-president was there in that first election another so that were in receivers so I decided I will buy that so also I had some partners and we bought this Manji biscuit which is now there we call it Manji Futs but people know it as house of Manji and my company always under house of Dauda because my main name of my group of companies called Dauda group of company house of Dauda he shifted back to Kenya after buying Manji biscuits and made charity his co-objective I shifted back to Nairobi after buying this factory and now from that time charity was the main aim to help the people so I was working with some orphan children home all people home to give them biscuits some support and that is how it went on and on so again election riots again last time so we started a project with our organisers called Brahma Kumaris and with Amy and the slum people post for peace then now retired doctor Dauda who saw the reality on ground especially in slum areas chose to come up with a sustainable plan to help out those in need with the help of Amy and other partners I found the problem in Kibira on the ground even Madare Kurokocho and now I knew a lot of good people there are many NGOs but I found the real work on the ground was not really sustainable maybe some money was coming but sustainability so me as a successful businessman now like today I am about 70 say 70 now but I always say let me be remain at 50 so I can work still hard so I decided why giving them all the time because I was giving some scholarships school fees but then I said my heart also in Uganda was agriculture as I was there when I was appointed as a task force committee chairman for agriculture for 5 years task force committee so I learn agriculture also that food is important and after that without food you cannot blame people because the hungry man even in Bible they said the hungry man is an angry man then we discuss recently with Amy after I got retired and Ben and Ooku and she introduced me to a lot of another good honest you know to get honest well inter also is very difficult because what people get on the ground is very peanut and we like donors to bring and then we get 20% only to the ground rest goes to ABCD we are piloting everything on this farm so it's a learning center as you continue saying because it's a 2 year old farm when we started with the first the greenhouse and then the outside space so every space here papa is making sure that it's a learning space so we've discovered that we not just need trees we also need trees the project kick started at his Lovington home and plans to expand to other areas Dauda says they strive for long lasting impact and their main approach is agribusiness where they use technology in modern methods such as hydroponics, pyramid farming and step farming I told them if you work under one umbrella we will support you as a children part everything they did little things was doing but I said now everybody comes and give you 10,000 20,000 and go away take videos, photos but on the ground then what next let's start agriculture I told him this place is open and Amy also liked agriculture so we started this what you see in my Lovington home the greenhouse and everything I said what is sustainable can we do agriculture this papa will support you so this was a dream together here and I said okay let's try and train people also we get some money for charity and that is how the seeds of real agriculture training program here in this Lovington in this area then again we got idea to go more in agriculture in Korokocho we have done very well still we are doing recovering the land and putting in sake garden different different way and we want to see that every youth because in average she told me and we interview many people that hardly there are 500 or 1000 years per week we can take a walk around the garden and evidently the crops planted are vast this great initiative has earned a living for the youth involved the humble business Taikun has other projects in store channel towards the betterment of the lives of the youth children and women namely we started there to learning and all the money which comes I don't want a penny even here I'm not looking for making profit I started my foundation HP Dauda foundation so everything should go for not free and out for development for the people in kebira sumai king stitching young single mothers all that we doing on Dugu also in there with them so we try to learn from people what is going wrong first we said how can we unite the NGOs who are really ready to work together and let's not duplicate let's everybody use their ideas and we be one team under one umbrella but it was very difficult we tried and tried I said everybody we let's come together and make one umbrella so the youth can get a job in the women's single mothers they are doing well in them making lot of things so we bring them under orchestral training I will finance for material and equipments and they will pay back it should be like a lot that after that they have to get their own market not going to look for the job so this is plan still we have not given up but because of this little COVID disturbance but COVID was again a blessing people will say what are you telling I say yes because since 2 years I was telling people this smelling this Mataros lot of bacteria malaria always we try to clean clean clean but still people attitude throw there again so I said this cleaning cleaning process how long it will be so how can we bring awareness so through agriculture and then youth I can pay them and we want to bring some long term solution even for clean and hygiene that was my main agroforestry says is his main dream for the next 10 years I applied a lot of fris but now I say no trees also we are starting cutting and sometimes we are doing for name and fame and we are doing little the environment was totally disturbed the pollution so we said now let's start fruit trees I told we are buying more plants seedlings for fruit so all the river side 5 5 meters put any kind of fruits avocado moringa mango whatever possible so we are always starting to put more fruit trees long trap so let even people will eat agroforestry is my dream for the 10 years agroforestry means everything in agriculture which will help food sector main thing of health which is wealth is food clean Dauda has quite a strong stand about industrialization 10 years back I wrote a lot of thing about industrialization I was writing always something not in the newspaper but telling people let us be not be a supermarket consumer for the outside from China or South or India we should produce our own everything we have enough main power learned main power so this country to come out of this kind of difficult time to depend on donor of this COVID or all that we could have we can do everything export food item is if you don't export I mean if you don't import but we should have a food processing plant we should have agro plant and add value to our agriculture and the last why this COVID is disturbing in the main city because we are congested in the city too much congestion so it needs industries some into the rural areas in every district you know and employ people in agriculture industries employment is the main issue and food security like fish now we are importing while we have a lot of sweet waters and all that but planning what is his opinion about the COVID-19 pandemic this COVID is some difficult until we don't get medicines for it isn't it so I think that you young people particularly you people should be more responsible I say our president many times tells that people have to take their own cross if they do wrong now time has come if they don't take or they'll cross here these people then corona is going to take a course almighty brings climate change bring floods bring all this natural calamities is indirect is a curse to the from the universal am I wrong these diseases these floods this rain and unclimbed climate change because we are greedy to cutting cutting trees forest forest destroy and not planting more food we are imbalanced united we stand divided we fall is the slogan that Dr. Dauda parts with this is a war not for government only government alone can't do it it needs a positive attitude it needs people to say enough is enough let's compromise and sacrifice at least for 5 to 6 months even everybody start giving 10% of their saving profit back not even 50% I think we can really get out of this poverty 10% make God almighty your partner either in your salary either in industries you can give more but minimum people should say yes I will commit 10% and God says you reap what you sow so today we are reaping what we have planted am I wrong because we forgot to help our neighbors each other