We are building what we wish had found us sooner.

“I grew up in Waithaka, a semi-rural set-up where my mother raised us alone, selling carrots at the market two days a week. That was our entire income.

When I finished secondary school, I had the grades for aeronautical engineering, but not the fees. My community raised them for me, through a small harambee, because they believed a girl was worth investing in.

I finished that diploma. I built a career. And for years I have used my own income to quietly put girls from my community through school — because I know exactly what that money means to a girl one step from giving up.

But one person cannot break a cycle of poverty alone. That is why my co-founder and I started this Foundation: to do for other girls what a community once did for me.”

“I grew up in a semi-rural community where ambition often outpaced opportunity. Like many girls around me, the odds were not designed in my favour — but I had one thing many did not: someone who believed an investment in my education would pay off.

I started my career as a secretary. It was not where I wanted to end up, but it was a foothold. Through persistence — and because my employers chose to invest in my growth — I went on to study law, and later earned my MBA. Today I work as a lawyer, a path that once felt impossibly distant from where I started.

For the past ten years I have quietly supported my retired parents and sponsored the education of a few children. It has never felt like charity. Someone believed in my potential before I had the means to prove it. I am simply paying that forward.

The difference between a girl who finishes school and becomes self-sufficient, and one who does not, is rarely talent. It is almost always an opportunity. I intend to be that opportunity for as many girls as we can reach.”