Footprints Podcast | Season 1 | Episode 26 | Part 1 | Growing Up Held, Growing Up Ready

Footprints Podcast Series · Feb 12, 2026 · 42m

Ruth Ojiambo Ochieng takes us back to Genguluho Village, in present day Namayingo District, along Lake Victoria, where her story begins in 1955. She describes a childhood shaped by food security, safety, and a deeply protective family led by her father, a Reverend who watched over her well being with serious intention. Her schooling journey moves through Masese Primary School, then Mulili Girls’ School, and later Wanyange Girls School, where she is nominated head girl in Senior Three, her first formal leadership role. Part 1 also holds the quiet, formative guidance she received as a girl…