From Korogocho to the boardroom

For the young woman who works with the Young Health Programme (YHP), the experience offered a new perspective on what she could achieve. [Manuel Ntoyai, Standard]

For Aisha, a peer educator from Korogocho, Nairobi, chairing a meeting of doctors from different countries might once have seemed like a distant dream.

But when she walked into the office of Dr Benter Opanga, Head of Oncology at AstraZeneca Kenya, she got an opportunity to do just that.