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Teacher by profession, mortician by passion

Catherine Njenga a teacher who became a mortician at The Nairobi Women's Hospital. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

She is warm, soft-spoken and friendly; traits that many don’t associate with mortuary attendants.

“Karibuni sana,” she says with a mile-wide smile as she welcomes us to her home in Ruaka, Kiambu County.

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