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My Sh50 startup journey

When Njeri Muchina lost her job in March 2018, she would find herself plunged into a sea of hopelessness. She had been working as a sign language interpreter at MediaMax and now, for the first time in her life, she was jobless. Having worked for non-government organisations before, and armed with a credible degree certificate in Social Work from the University of Nairobi, she didn’t think that it would have been so hard to catch another break. But boy was she wrong. 

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