Meet first nun from the Samburu community, Roselyne Juliet Lenguris

Roselyne Juliet Lenguris (right), from Lodokejek Catholic Parish in Samburu County, joins family members at Mathari Complex in Nyeri County on April 26, 2016,to celebrate in an event where 12 sisters from Mary Immaculate convent took their final vows.Lenguris became the first woman from the Samburu Community to become a Catholic sister. (PHOTO: KIBATA KIHU/ STANDARD)

I was born in 1982 in Lodokejek village, Samburu County. My father was and still is a catechist, and I was introduced into the Catholic faith when I was very young and was baptised Roselyne Juliete Lenguris.

My family life was just like any other Samburu family and our father still followed the ways of our people - he had two wives and 11 children.