Miss Kangwato

This is a post I usually really long to write. In December 2021, I wrote this one here: TAKING STOCK - 2021 . Fun read. It combines most, if not all things that have happened in the course of the year which contributed to my being here now. I love looking back at the strides I made and plan ahead but also correct things I might've handled wrong. Now, as 2021 ended, I was out of a job and was super broke. The company I'd been working at for about 3 years closed down - Covid manenos . Good thing was that as we approached year end I got a temporary out-bound sales executive job at Glovo. Can we one day talk about matching salaries to fancy job titles attached to it, because wueeh! ? It paid the necessary bills anyway so I stuck with it for about 4 months as I sought better avenues. I don't miss the sales review meetings or having to wait for a restaurant owner in Rongai for weeks to give me a response on whether he'll sign with us only to go there two week after (with th...

‘Finding Me’ intrigued me. Not only did reading though Viola’s story give me a weirdly necessary assurance that I am doing better at things life and should learn to constantly pat myself on the back for a good job done but also took me waaay back to the days when life as is (currently) was once a blurry dream and out of possible human reach. It so happened that as I was scrolling the last few chapters, her latest movie “The Woman King” premiered. The brave fighter, General Nanisca took the day! Her character and story in the movie comes close to what she’s generally experienced in life - a story of a young girl rising from nothing to something great; to the Woman King - Nanisca. It’s crazy how we find it easy to judge some of these celebrities and think “ ….yup! They’re shining as they are now because they’ve had it easy!” The lenses with which I look at them was somewhat changed after reading Viola’s story; which she wrote with so much rawness, vulnerability and courage. She talks a...

Stellar Girls Kenya   at the   Mtaani Touch A Heart   Event - Recap VIDEO:  3rd December 2022 We got an invitation to the Mtaani Hangout, 5th edition organized by HESA INTL this past Saturday. To participate, we took up donation of sanitary towels for the girls and young women present.To that effect, we successfully ran a rigorous 12-Day Sanitary Pads Funds drive campaign from 21st November 2022 to 2nd December 2022.  With the relentless and moral support from our stellar mentors and supporters, in the 12 days we were able to raise  KES. 33,069  which enables us acquire  above 385 sanitary pads  that we donated to  over 200 teenage girls, young women and mothers  at Lenana during the Mtaani Hangout event held on 3rd December 2022. THIS IS A VIDEO   showing a snippet of how the day went. Stellar Girls Kenya was proud to have this platform to serve and look forward to more of these great platforms to impact, educate, elevate...