Funkidz furniture founder Ciiru Waithaka: Making it big in a male-dominated field

Ciiru Waweru Waithaka, CEO of Funkidz (Photo: Instagram @Funkidzgroup_)

Ciiru, CEO of Funkidz, had a vision for the furniture industry, her goal was to make fashionable furniture for schools and homes. But her dream ran into a roadblock just at its inception. A bill was passed banning logging in the country. Timber was a primary resource for her business and she was in desperate need of a contingency plan.

“We know there’s a lot of waste around us, plastic waste and we thought, there’s also wood waste, a lot of timber waste used in other products. What if we took that waste from other companies from other corporates, other businesses and turned it into a resource that we could use in our manufacturing.” She told KTN’S Julie Wambui.