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Woman with two PhDs against all odds to become a leader

Chuka University Council chairman Dr.Julius Rotich confers a PhD degree to Dr Wanjiru Mugai. Looking on are Chuka University Vice-Chancellor  Erastus Njoka and Prof Dorcas Isutsa, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor in charge of Academics, on  December 18, 2020. [Muriithi Mugo, Standard]

In her early 60s now, Dr Jane Wanjiru Mugai has used the lowest point of her life to go on a degree acquisition spree and is now a certified Psychotherapist/Counsellor, Special Needs Education Specialist and Consultant holding two PhDs from two different universities.

Dr Mugai recalls how she was depressed in 2008 when her husband died, and traumatized after her in-laws not only abandoned her but also asked her to leave without her children.

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