 Her love for beauty helped her overcome the challenges she faced while trying to put up a beauty business and when she finally made it, Jen Kanampu decided to pass on her inborn talent and the skills learnt to other interested parties. I was not well trained but I earned my talent. I was doing the hair very well but I realized I couldn't see people doing the hair. I realized I was not very much professional so I went back to neighbors college in Karyobang South where I specialized so much on living. Then I went back again. This time the salon picked very well so I earned a challenge stood for employees because now most of people are never trained there. Not most, at least I didn't get anybody who had done a dressing or a beauty so I decided to train my union employees and that's when I started impacting the society. So I started getting gas, training them so that they can work for me and I trained of 12 gas and then I employed some. I employed them, some got jobs from some areas but with time I decided to come back to Nairobi because I know Nairobi is where there's population, there's where there's fashion. So that time I was fully equipped with the knowledge and skills. Due to limitations in terms of space, Jen came up with ways to advance her good cause to the society. I still wanted to train other youth because I never trusted some people who are doing the weaving, the bleeding, the way I see them being done. I was not up so I decided to train my own girls and this one I was doing it free. So I could train a girl and a employer. So I even trained my house girl so now I was well equipped because I earned my employees who were well trained by me and then I showed it was something I can do for one. So apart from training them for free, I started changing very little money. Actually I started by the 2500 because my salon was small, it could not accommodate all of them. So the less I could get my friends, I could walk into beauty parlors and salons to ask if they need the girls and they were desperately wanting that project. So I started a project of training girls and doing the electric job placement. So when I started that it was really working for me because I got so many youth to train so I could imagine like me when I was young. Actually I didn't get anyone to mentor me that I shouldn't do and reason because the society is really against kazi amukon. It's for people who have not gone to school so I didn't get someone to tell me even your talent can be improved. So I took that advantage to mentor girls that not only the white color jobs can work for them even your kali can work for them. Actually beauty industry is very very profitable. So I started mentoring girls on that. Some were saying it is, yes I know how to make the air but I don't want to do it because nya watu nya was. So I could mentor them, I could tell them how profitable it is and then they could do it. We could work the journey together. I looked for jobs for them and then they could be happy and then later they can't tell me okay it's better you send that to me because I was not to do it. I was waiting until I would be taken to college, I would do teaching, I would do nothing but I convinced them even air dressing and beauty can make good mornings to them. Her motivation she says was from a life experience. I do this because of my life. My life when I was young actually I got married at a very tender age because I was waiting for that college to go to a big college, to go to university and my family was not very well up. So I was waiting because nobody told me I was doing air dressing even when I was at home. I could do it for free for people but nobody told me whatever you are doing can come to be beneficial in life. So I'm doing it because I want them to realize that even talent can transform their lives. I want to cover a large number. I want to train as many as possible youth so that our society will not be financially well and the economy will go high because we will not have so many high dollars. So I want my school to have as many students as possible and then because for now like now the people are requesting me for employees they are more than the girls I have. So I don't want people to struggle and looking for skilled girls or boys. When determining the right person to train Jen follows a new process. For training actually I don't pick anybody it must be from someone like a friend who gives me a history of a despolitical so I could fall up and find out if it is true. When I train them and I want to absorb them in my industry I don't just pick anybody. Actually the training takes six months. By the time you you are through with six months I know the kind of person you are faithful you are patient because this job means a lot of patience and you are handworking. Yeah because this job you can even work after sakumi also like when you have winning settings you will work even at night so that's what I consider but still if you don't have that I can cancel you so that you can I can mentor you so that you can get that luck. Training they take from two weeks to one year because like now you are coming you want to train only on knees you can take three months you want to do only massage you take two weeks so it depends on what you want to take or what after I cancel you I ask you what do you feel what do you feel you can do what do you feel your heart want so if you want to do hand raising hand raising and knees are the most difficult things to train so if you are taking the hand raising or knees hand raising will take six months knees will take three months if you want a shot because maybe somebody want to maybe you have gotten a job somewhere and you want to train only facial or only makeup you take like one month At her beauty center there are a number of services offered to the clientele we do hand raising for one hand raising start with some point let's wash on the blow dry we do blending we do relaxing we do weaving we do natural hair styles like finger curls twisting all the natural hair styles we do them the unit is called natural hair styles then we do locks both permanent and artificial locks so that's hand hair dressing so we go to beauty beauty we do massage makeup pende cure manicure and facial so we go to nail technology we do gel application cutex application acrylics gum gel and what you see yeah they are loose five that's what we do we do babali air cut and the indian end massage she is proud that some of her trainees have become successful in life I have trained several girls I started with my house girl but now she has a home job in the welcome I trained another house girl she has a job twin here in Nairobi she has opened a home salon here in Nairobi I have trained several people working somewhere my name is Monica Jambi I'm a former student of talk beauty but currently I'm working thanks to her so Jane first I didn't know her she was she wasn't my teacher she used to do it here and then within as in how you are you know when we were interacting with her I learnt she had a school at that time I was in a school and I didn't know what I was going to do so I was really confused because I was not working I was not learning then she told me I can come and learn her dressing and you know I can get a job and I wanted a job at that time so when I started learning I wanted to do makeup alone because I had a passion in makeup and then she told me you know you should do everything you should know about hair about you should like you should be well and good you should know a lot of stuff so that you can be good for the market I wanted to do makeup but then I just took the whole course so everything she specializes in I learnt whether it's her dressing or Baba Reen everything I did everything like there's nothing I can't do right now Aside from beauty training Jane also engages in other projects that are beneficial to the society I do mentorship actually when I started mentorship when I started my business I never had anyone to tell me who this way, who that way so I started it without knowing remember I came out of the office to business so I first opened the business closed changed the station changed the location doing this so I started mentoring people on business so I coach people on business how to start a business where to get the capture how to learn a business that's no capital how to have the challenges and diversity in business so that's one project I'm doing and that project I'm doing I am I am helping the people who are not able like the children I have a group called Lua givers we went in a group we go to help people who are vulnerable so we have visited several children homes and rescue homes personally I go with my students so I do it as my my college, my college is called the beauty college so we go as the beauty we go and do them pedikua manikua and they split them wash them shape them at least we do this every month I have to go to one of the children home I have gone to winds over daf I have gone to another one in Josuka I have gone to another one in Mikamuru another one in Luaikos winds over daf so when we go there we buy for them food then we do those beauty services to them remember like those small boys some they don't go to kinyons so I go to shave them I go with my team then we shave them and we do broad ride to them cars and when the school closes like December we go and make the I.M. with her she's a good teacher she's caging and she's loving and then sometimes she's tough she's good and also she really pushes you you know when sometimes like for example me I was like like hairdressing I really didn't want that because it was very hectic like you know like doing hair perfectly it's not easy but then she really pushes you she tells you you need to know this because it's important because sometimes people will always do their hair but people won't always do makeup but hair they need to do it in her endeavors she has faced a number of difficulties our industry is not well taken by the society and the community so living is really affecting me because whenever I get a student maybe he's from the upcanton she cannot get it right if you tell her to make makeup to do a makeup and as I made your lipstick I made your lipstick just because from the world go it is criticized sometimes sometimes my guests they make noise when they are going home and sometimes you know they are used they come to school they pretend they have come to school if they can't wear uniform and then the parents they complain but I have been handling it very well now I have had when you come to school you come in uniform when you go out of the school you go in uniform don't come in anything to change what strategic method does she use for her marketing? networking is the most important way of marketing because now I am a sadonist somebody is studying cakes somebody is doing events so when we come to Gelda we cannot do the business together so if there is maybe an event like a wedding somewhere somebody is making a cake and getting I am the makeup artist I do the makeup and hair the one who is doing the decorations will decorate the ground and now with that now you will see we have network together the fast she has reached Jen is thankful to those who stood by her in times of need I want to thank my students because they have been there for me they trust me they believe in me it's not easy for somebody to believe in what you are telling for almost a year or six months she believed in me so I really thank them for believing in me they have never gone against me I want to thank everybody who we have worked with especially people we do charity work with I really want to thank them because they have been supporting our project so much