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How losing job created shea butter venture

Maryfaith Vutale at her shop in Nairobi. [PHOTO: JECKONIA OTIENO/ STANDARD]

In 2012, Maryfaith Vutale was forced to take a long, hard look at her life after she was fired from her job. She worked with an NGO and donor funding had dried up.

Ms Vutale was a marketer at the organisation, and on the long list of bills that she had to figure out how to pay without a steady monthly income was treatment for her son’s eczema.

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