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Clara Rono, Lilian Ochieng’ and Ruth Muchiri have one thing in common: foresight, big heart, and an unyielding desire to help the less fortunate. Sample this: In rural Kajiado County, life can be very unforgiving for the girl child. On or around the age of nine years, some parents allow their girls to undergo the female genital mutilation (FGM), Ms Ochieng’, who is the...

When the first case of the coronavirus pandemic was reported in March, the uncertainties hit homes hardest with ordinary Kenya thrown into turmoil without jobs and incomes and staring at the possibility of contractive the virus. Kenya National Bureau of Statistics shows that in just three months as many as 1.7 million Kenyans found themselves without a job as employment fell to 15.87 million...

In Nairobi where street block numbers are ignored or unknown and the names of roads get lost under an avalanche of advertisements of photocopy shops, directions across the city are usually given by referencing the sky scrapers near you. A casual stroll down the streets and you’ll likely come across a conversation similar to this: “Where are you?” She turns and looks at the...

Flora Mutahi is not your everyday captain of industry. She is the Chief Executive Officer and founder of Melvins Tea, one of the first companies in the region to venture into the flavoured tea industry. The accountant by training says that growing up, everyone thought she should pursue the highly regarded professions such as a doctor or a nurse. In...

As many sectors of Kenya’s economy were declining thanks to  Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing containment measures last year, the agriculture segment defied all odds posting 6.4 per cent growth in the second quarter compared to a 2.9 per cent jump in the same period in 2019.  This growth was attributable to rise in tea production, cane deliveries, milk intake as well as the...

At just 30, Pooja Bhaat was the co-founder and head actuary of the emerging insurance firm, QuantaRisk. The actuarial scientist is one of the successful young women entrepreneurs we celebrate this week for going beyond the norm. She learned from the best, earning valuable entrepreneurship experienced at the Lloyd’s of London insurance market before coming back to Kenya to establish and run QuantaRisk.