Francis Kaitano is currently working in New Zealand as an Information Security consultant, initially for Deloitte and now with IRD New Zealand. He consults regularly with executives and business stakeholders from the IT and other business areas to help create synergistic solutions to world-impacting information security and business problems.
Born and raised in Zimbabwe, Francis always portrayed a great desire to succeed in his studies and career although there were some limitations to do so such as financial resources. In 1999, he was offered an S4Si scholarship through the Zimbabwe Program and has worked with S4Si since then to assist them on various issues for the Zimbabwe Program. Together with other Zimbabwean S4Si alumni members, he is currently assisting a few students to finish off their university studies.
Francis is dedicated and hardworking and has a great desire to see less privileged African scholars being given a chance to go to school and acquire appropriate education and career advice to achieve the best they can.
Based on his background he understands the diversity of the African culture and the various issues that affect the general African scholar and solutions on how to overcome them.
When a girl in the developing world has received seven or more years of education, she marries four years later and has 2.2 fewer children.