Our Team
Sylvia Scott
President and Co-Founder and Director of Caring Partners Global (CPG) Inc. and Matangwe Community Health and Development Programme (MCHDP)
Sylvia was born and raised in a rural Kenyan Village of Rachar, near Lake Victoria,. She's a Canadian trained and now a retired nurse with over 36 years of clinical and senior cooperate experience in Canada. There is no doubt that she is well experienced in life and in education. She and her husband co-founded Caring Partners Global, as well as the Matangwe Community Health and Development Programme. Not only does Sylvia have a vision for a better future for Matangwe, but she is also willing to put effort into her vision as an advocate for policy development, leadership training, and program planning in order to establish sustainable development practices in Matangwe.
She is driven by her belief to live authentically while honoring God, her family as well as herself; all with a heart full of compassion. What remains rooted in Sylvia's memory includes memories of growing up in rural Kenya, which have no doubt impacted her.
Here are a few examples:
"I watched with curiosity, the seemingly tireless and knowledgeable foreign men & women with local guides, making their way through the narrow, bushy and often muddy pathways to our village schools in order to provide immunization and other basic health promotion and disease prevention services. The purposeful and methodical process of unveiling each vaccine vial, loading each syringe, sterilizing each needle over a flaming Bunsen burner before re-filling the life-saving portion for the next child in line.."
"I recall the inquisitiveness of this "new" medicine, and how it could possibly prevent death from the 'evil eye' of the village witchcraft…that stirred in me the need to equip myself with knowledge and skills to effectively advance life-changing practices across cultures, and specifically with the disadvantaged communities."
One of her favourite quotes: "My business is not to remake myself, but to make absolute best of what God made." – Robert Browning
Stephen Benjamin Juma Scott (1948-2022)
Co-Founder and Director of Caring Partners Global (CPG) Inc. and Matangwe Community Health and Development Programme (MCHDP)
Stephen was born and raised in Matangwe Village, which is precisely where the vision behind Caring Partners Global began. Matangwe is approximately 7 kilometers from the nearest town, Bondo, and Stephen knows this part of Kenya extremely well as he grew up, moved away, and returned annually to further plant his roots and work with the community to make a difference in health care, educating young people, skills training, and food security through advancing agricultural practices.
As a young man, Stephen moved to Canada, and obtained a degree in Religious Education as well as a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education. He taught high school science in Canada until he retired in 2010. He co-founded Caring Partners Global and Matangwe Community Health and Development Programme in 1994, with his wife, Sylvia. He worked tirelessly to influence fair and equitable political action for the good of the ordinary person with a vision to bringing lasting change to the disadvantaged in his beloved country of Kenya, until his unexpected and untimely death in April of 2022, while doing what he loved, developing a new maternity unit to improve access close to home and save the lives of women and children in rural communities and villages around Matangwe.
He had a deep love for God, his family and a truly compassionate heart for individuals who are in need or suffering (whether it be because of hunger, poverty, lack of health accessibility, lack of consumable water, etc). Stephen strived to emulate Jesus, his Lord and Savior, as a model of love that guided his every action in life. He left a legacy in his Kenyan community for others and the next generation to rise up to the challenge and carry on doing good and improving lives for generations to come.
Stephen enjoyed reading, listening to music, watching movies, making connections, and speaking with people. He believed fully that life is a journey that we are to live well, wisely, while striving always not to do no wrong to other people. One of his favourite quotes were the words of Nelson Mandela, "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."