Exploits of first Samburu girl to go to university

Umoja women village do bead work as they are joined by the founder Rebecca Lolosoli in the village, Samburu County. JENIPHER WACHIE

KENYA: Sophia Lepuchurit from Wamba, Samburu County, never gets tired of narrating what she went through on her journey to liberation.

And why not? She was the first girl from the Samburu community to successfully complete ‘A’ levels and subsequently joined University of Nairobi. Today, Lepuchurit is the Director of Industrial and Commercial Development Corporation (ICDC), having graduated with Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations and Public Administration from the University of Nairobi in 1983.