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Across rural Kenya, women run the most reliable small businesses in their communities — and for decades, traditional banks called them too risky to lend to. In 2014, a small Nairobi-based social enterprise called Cherehani Africa decided that assumption was the problem, not the women. She sells vegetables at dawn. She sews school uniforms through […]
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She lost her father. She faced pressure to marry at 16. She lived in one of Kenya’s most forgotten corners. Then, at 19, Alice from Turkana stood on a stage in London — and changed everything for the girls who came after her. There is a version of Alice Ngitira’s story where nobody ever hears […]
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