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Growing up in a slum didn’t stop my success

 

Without money, however, their options were looking pretty limited and very dull. As they glanced down at their phones in the hopes of finding a miracle, one of the students came across a text message he had received from M-Shwari, a mobile loans product that had launched a year earlier. PHOTO: COURTESY

At just 22, Sharon Kate Ng’ang’a is already making an indelible mark mentoring and empowering the youth.

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