It is a platform that recognizes, celebrates, supports and gives a voice to women who are impacting and changing the lives of others in our communities and is part of the annual International Women’s Day Celebration.
Name: HON.PROF.MARGARET KOBIA PHD, EGH
Title: Cabinet Secretary
Company: Ministry of Public Service, Gender, Senior Citizens, Social Protection and Special Program.
Professor Margaret Kobia is the Cabinet Minister in Kenya Government in the Ministry of Public Service, Gender, Senior Citizens, Social Protection and Special Program. She is a full Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship of Kenya School of Government. Professor Kobia Holds a PhD Degree in Human Resource Education of the University of Illinois, M.Ed. of Kenyatta University and B.Ed. of the University of Nairobi. She received her ‘O’ and ‘A’ level education at Alliance Girls High School. Prior to joining the cabinet she was Public Service Commission Chairperson for five years. She was the founding Director General of the Kenya School of Government 2005 to 2012 where she made a profound contribution in transforming the institution into a truly modern Management Development Institute (MDI) leading to the Institute’s elevation to Kenya School of Government. Professor Kobia has taught Management, Entrepreneurship and Research Methods at University level. Between 2011 and 2016, Professor Kobia served as the Chief Editor of the refereed African Journal of Public Administration and Management.
Imagine a gender equal world. A world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. A world that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive, where we champion positive change important for the social, economic, cultural, and political advancement of women.
Together we can forge women’s equality.
Individually, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions – all day, every day.
We can embrace equity in our communities, our workplaces, our schools, colleges and
universities. Together, we can all #EmbraceEquity – on International Women’s Day
(IWD) and beyond.
#IWD #EmbraceEquity
Founder of Regal Africa Anne Wambui Gaitha #ZuriAwards 2022 Business nominee has been championing for wealth creation for all and Africa Economic development. Regal Africa is focused on assisting clients to create wealth through Trade and Investments and we continue to support families to create generational wealth through our wealth advisory department and support businesses especially SMEs to access finance, access markets and build capacity as they scale up through our business Institute. Their focus is eradication of poverty on the continent through business.
Amina Haider, a modest and humble character with drive and discipline, is the brainchild of JIKO Manufacturing Incubation Facility Limited. She has been in the manufacturing industry for the last seven years, graduating from a startup to a successful, competitive business. In her experience, there’s inadequate favourable policy to support MSMEs in the manufacturing industry in Kenya. This has discouraged many entrepreneurs, leaving the concept of freedom of entry into markets to be merely a dream. Amina started a WhatsApp group, “Above the Radar (ATR) in 2019 with the intention of bringing together women venturing into manufacturing, who shared common challenges, and mentoring them from her experience in manufacturing. The group remains highly active with 100+ members, and growing.
Nasenyana Adoket Mia is a self-driven young single mother with a passion for mobilising and working with young women in rural parts of Turkana, Kenya in improving their livelihoods and dignity. She has 6 years of experience as a development finance practitioner, working on sustainable livelihoods and socio-economic inclusion projects for marginalised women in Turkana county under a Faith-based organisation towards building their resilience.
Ellie became an Orphan at early age and took role of my both parents to manage and rise my eight siblings. Through the struggle and hardship and expose by life as a young girl she got pregnant at 14 yrs. And after a lot she was able to overcome challenges and turned it into opportunity to assist young girls and women on empowering Women, widows, Orphans, single mothers, and less privileged in the community.
RESPEKT- REproductive and Sexual health ProgrammE for Kenyan Teenagers is a youth-led, youth-run initiative based in Denmark and Kenya that aims to advocate for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) on behalf of the Kenyan youth. The organization seeks to contribute to the voice of change by working with key stakeholders in health and education through creating social change. Our programs are curated through a peer-to-peer model aimed at promoting access to information and services in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) for young people. Marie-Claire Wangari, is a young medical doctor and one of the founders of RESPEKT. Since 2015, she has actively been involved in running youth-led, volunteer-based initiatives and organizations in the healthcare arena at a national, regional and international level that involve multi-cultural knowledge exchange, youth and resource mobilization, project design and Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL). Furthermore, she has been engaged in global health advocacy since 2013 where she primarily advocates for meaningful youth engagement in the attainment of Universal Health Coverage using a human rights approach.Her past experience includes working in a volunteer capacity at the Medical Students Associations of Kenya (MSAKE), the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA) and the International Student Surgical Network (InciSioN). In all these organisations, she was pivotal in spearheading various policies, frameworks and publications. Currently, she is an executive board member and youth hub coordinator of the African Forum for Primary Care (AfroPHC) and colead on the WHO related policies on COVID-19/Pandemic Preparedness in the World Medical Association, Junior Doctors Network WHO Working Group.In addition, she holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) from the University of Nairobi.
Meet Deborah Media Nominee #Zuriawards 2022 the face behind Bungoma Rentals. Bungoma Rentals was started 2 Years ago when Covid 19 struck and most people were asked to work from home. Deborah had to look for a cheaper house and due to COVID 19 protocols that had been put
Sharon Korir is the founder Save a woman Fistula Foundation’ (herein known as ‘the Foundation’) an organization run by women for women suffering from Fistula in Kenya. Although they primarily focus on obstetric fistula often resulting from childbirth, they also support women with Fistula resulting from rape, cancer, early marriages and female genital mutilation. They provide the much-needed awareness and timely responses with a view to safeguarding the dignity and wellbeing of the survivors and also making Fistula a normal condition that women need not be suffering from.
Ann Gathura has a background in BSc. Actuarial Science from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. She is passionate about Mathematics and impacting students into loving the subject. This is also reflected in her Career where Ann, is a Google Digital Skills Mentor and Trainer and has worked with more than 6 million people across Sub-Saharan Africa, guiding them on building an online presence and growing their businesses online.
Rukia Sebit is the founder of The Sunflower Trust and a #ZuriAwards 2022 Nominee. The Sunflower Trust exists to create an environment where adolescent girls can discover as a community, their capacities and potential, achieve self-value, self-actualization and acquiring bodily autonomy and knowledge to make informed choices as measured by health seeking behavior, access to quality education and economic security. Give targeted group an access to quality learning that will reduce their risk of dropping out of school.
Annrose Wanjugu is #ZuriAwards Agriculture Nominee she is 29 years old. She has a background in food security. She is the founder of Organic Agriculture Solutions (OAS). OAS builds the capacity of women in poultry feed formulation using black soldier fly larvae(BSFL) as the key protein ingredient. They have a demonstration farm where we use organic waste as substrate to rear BSFL. They hold trainings on their farm where women poultry farmers are trained on integrating Black Soldier fly Larvae with poultry so as to lower their production cost.
Organization: Jiko Manufacturing Incubation Facility Ltd
Organization: Azaavi Foods
Organization: Binti Mwangaza
Organization: Bungoma Rentals
Organization: Nation Media Group
Organization: Jewelpet Company Limited
Organization: Tunza Sports Foundation
Organization: Syombua Kibue
Organization: Rova Academy Limited
Organization: Organic Agriculture Solutions
Organization: Kipepeo Green Heritage
Organization: Azuree World
Organization: Chaqula Ltd
Organization: Africa Online Vocalists
Organization: Wanderlust Diaries Ltd
Organization: Chui mamas CBO
Organization: African Christian Authors Book ward
Organization: The Spring Azalea
Organization: Pishibora
Organization: Regal Africa Group
Organization: Tumi Wellness Ltd
Organization: Mamba Tufo
Organization: Talking Hands Listening Eyes On PPD
Organization: Community Anti Drugs Coalitions of Kenya (CADCKe)
Organization: Twa Assist
Organization: Judeju Ventures
Organization: Qasil Beauty Ltd
Organization: DigiSpaceSafety Ltech Consultancy
Organization: One a month foundation
Organization: Ann’s Maths Club
Organization: Imani Mavuno Group
Organization: Farmer on Fire
Organization: EngineerEd
Organization: Jao Photography
Organization: Respekt- Reproductive and Sexual Health Programme for Kenyan Teenagers
Organization: Vision for Child Education and Empowernment foundation
Organization: Save a Woman Fistula Foundation
Organization: Hope Beyond Foundation
Organization: Tunu Afrika
Organization: Kenya Community Centre for Learning
Organization: The Sunflower Trust
Organization: TAFi CBO
Organization: Twiga Soma Africa
The Zuri audience is made up of women who are making an impact in their communities; celebrating change-makers within every sphere of influence. Zuri Awards is about empowering women and provides an enabling platform for women to thrive in. Zuri creates a CSR platform, where government, developmental partners and brands come together to support women entrepreneurs in their journey. Impact and Progress 2017 to Date
The platform has created 10 trade linkages and raised KES 20 million for its nominees through its engagement in the last 6 years