Lucy Odipo could be retired and living comfortably after twenty years of working as a secretary at Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya.  Before her retirement in 2001, she had saved a good deal of money to invest.  However, Lucy decided, instead, to use her only savings to help the less fortunate in the Nairobi slums.  In the same year as her retirement, she mobilized a group of women to start cleaning up the slums. They also washed clothing for the sick and provided food and clothing for the poor.