Jemimah Peters was the second born of six children. She was brought up entirely by her mother. During her early school years, Jemimah had to take on casual farm jobs to help earn money for her school fees. This was often very difficult for a young child of 9 or 10 years old to work [...]
Shelly Okumu’s mother and father died before she was 10 years old. Her maternal grandmother raised her in a Nairobi slum, Dandora, where she has memories of violence, girl child drop outs due to early marriages, and teenage pregnancies. Her project focuses on girl child empowerment through education of the community members and encouraging girls [...]
Eunita is the second born in a family of six children from Manyatta slums in Kisumu. Both of her parents are small scale business people.
Eunita is studying nursing and public health at Kenyatta University.After completing her nursing and public health degree, Eunita intends to directly serve the community through governmental departments or nongovernmental organizations or [...]
Nafisa is from a one-parent family with 7 brothers and sisters, being the only one able to complete secondary school. She is studying Education at the University of Nairobi. Her project is to assist the underperforming youth in her village of Gaigedi Sub Location with their studies and, in addition to other things like hygiene [...]
