I was born and raised in Kenya. I began my engagement with community development work right after high school, through an apprenticeship with a local Kenyan organization KEFEADO based in Kisumu, Kenya. I had an opportunity to work alongside other educationalists on a one year programme that dealt with the questions of enrolment, retention and completion of school by girls. Having completed high school in what was a considered a school in rural Kenya, the multiplicity of issues that young women in Busia and later Migori (both administrative districts in Kenya) where the project was replicated was for me a far cry from what I had experienced and had then considered ‘suffering’. I can safely argue that my interest in women’s rights begun at this point.
