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Lupus affects your youth, but it won’t stop my dream of joining the Bar

Christine Gitonga continues to brave it all despite being diagnosed with Lupus

Young and still full of life, the symptoms and complications that come with this immune disease have not drowned her resolve to live and make something of herself.

She has just completed her law degree and awaits to join the Kenya School of Law in January next year, and 22-year-old Christine Gitonga continues to brave it all despite being diagnosed with Lupus - a disease characterised by body cells turning against each other.

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