February 4, 2013
Before setting off to Kenya's Rift Valley with Habitat for Humanity, I interviewed two women in Nairobi for a Kenyan edition of The Broad Experience.
Lydia Kaindi (above) has had her own event management company for 12 years. She leaves for work at 5.45a.m. every day to avoid getting stuck in Nairobi's infamous traffic jams, and often doesn't get home till late in the evening. She has strong views on what's happening to Kenyan men as women make more of an impact on the workforce. And Mercy Murugi, at just 29, is running a foundation that houses the Kibera Film School. The school trains a select number of young residents of Kibera, Nairobi's famously sprawling slum, in the skills they'll need to work in Kenya's film industry.
She's in a profitable sector. I think films from Nigeria are doing very well across the world. I can think of more than one country far away from the African continent, where the movies are very popular.
I think that when people find an area that they really like and are committed to, they push the energy that is needed to help that sector grow as a result. Both Kenyan men and Kenyan women need to put more into entrepreneurship. A lot of talented business people are in the country.
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