Breaking Cultural Barriers to Education
Mandeq Adowo Mohamed Mandeq Adowo was brought up Wajir, North region of Kenya, a place she remembers as dry and dusty. When she was in standard three, her parents transferred her from ...
From Vulnerable Orphan to Thriving Engineer
Cheryl Onyango Ombani comes from Migori County. In a country where poverty is widespread, becoming an orphan at the age of two years seems like a death sentence. This was precisely where ...
More Girls for Engineering Opportunities
I never always knew about vehicles. But now I am learning so much about vehicles. I work for the government, in the State Department of Infrastructure under Mechanical and Transport Division, as ...
From a Timid Girl to Miss Kiriri Women’s University
“In a few months, I will be finishing my degree in Business Administration. I am born again and the reigning Miss Kiriri. I was chosen based on some qualities I exude. I ...
Teaching Her Way Out of Poverty
Kiambu town was full of buzz as we made our way to the village of Ndumberi, where Keziah Njeri has grown up for the last twenty-two years of her life. She is ...
My Mentor Shaped My Life, so I am Mentoring Others
Maureen grew up in Bomet. Her father passed on when she was in class two and the little earning her mother made from growing and selling vegetables and milk, could hardly get ...
