Author: Cynthia Gitonga

When I was a young girl I always wanted to become a nurse or maybe run a children's home someday, this was prompted by the passion and compassion i always had for people and for giving back to the community. When I didn't achieve to make the cut for nursing, I found my way into community service, and that is when i decided to create the Embakasi West Eagle Mama's Welfare Association. Embakasi West is surrounded by three major slums and these are, KCC, City Cotton and Kiambio. Majority of the children going to public schools are from the slums. these children are very needy, and thus why i started this project e.g to donate sanitary pads to the needy girls in the constituency and also hold monthly mentorship programmes that are catered to motivate these boys and girls to have hope and believe in themselves, that they too and make it in this society. The welfare seeks to empower the women in the constituency through income generating activities