From one of Kenya's toughest slums to being an award-winning social entrepreneur, with Ciro Muiruri

The Brand is Female · Aug 15, 2023 · 47m

Ciro Muiruri is the embodiment of resilience. Growing up in one of the toughest slums in Kenya as an AIDS orphan, she survived an attempted homicide and lived through the abduction of her young daughter. And even with everything against her, she embraced the mission of building schools and bringing quality education for young children in her community even after leaving her home country 7 years ago, when she came to Canada as an asylum seeker.

Now, she is the Founder of Pendo International Projects and sits on the board of the Sojourn House refugee shelter, which housed her as a newcomer…