In Conversation with Powerful Women; Angela Githuthu, Agnes Gathaiya & Phyllis Wanja
In
April 2019, I had the priviliege of interviewing Ms. Agenes Gathaiya,
then the CEO of Integrated Payment Services Limited (IPSL) at their
offices in Nairobi, Kenya.
I also had the privilege of being in conversation with Angela Githuthu, Safaricom’s Youth Segment Lead in mid-2019.
Most
Africans, and Kenyans, are conservative when it comes to mental health,
because there is a lot of stigma surrounding mental health issues like
suicide, depression, anxiety, and personality disorders.
However,
there are pioneers in the region, who have created platfroms to break
this stigma and to make mental health access and support accessible to
many. One such person is Phyllis Wanja, a YALI Fellow, who is the
founder of Afyakili, an organisation which focuses on art therapy to
facilitate better mental health. I sat down with her in early 2019 to
discuss her work.
Women in construction is not the most usual sight on site (pun-intended). I sat down with Sue who has founded Ladies in Helmets, an organisation that seeks to mentor young Kenyan women in STEM by mentoring them to take up their space in the male-dominated field.
