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Manyatta home schooling: Samburu's transformative leadership program changing lives

Over three hundred beneficiaries aged thirteen to thirty in Samburu County graduated from a transformative leadership program designed to empower women and girls who have been marginalised in formal education. [Michael Saitoti, Standard]

Margret Ekuwam’s smile radiated with the excitement of discovery. At 19, she has just begun exploring the world of reading, a pursuit that has evidently transformed her demeanour.

She eagerly expressed that she can now read short words such as ‘you,’ ‘come,’ ‘let,’ and ‘give’ with a mixture of pride and disbelief.

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