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I used savings from odd jobs to build my own textile company

Mwenda Kinyua, 27
Mwenda Kinyua, 27

Shortly after finishing high school, I held several odd jobs before getting a job with the Lewa Conservancy for a year.

After this, I worked as a teacher at a private school but lasted a term before calling it quits and moving to Meru town to work as a sales agent for a telco. The job entailed hawking SIM cards, but I didn’t like the terms, so I never started the job.

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