 No problem Yes, welcome back to why in the morning special thanks to Alex enjoy for always Yes, starting it outright. I'm sorry to join you guys late But I go by the name of bike Moses or it's very morning social media platform, and it's always a pleasure This is our last segment of the day, but before I introduce my guests Yes, why to fight for channel on Twitter white 5 for underscore channel on Instagram and white 5 for Facebook Is the way to interact with us hashtag is why in the morning hashtag is entrepreneurship Tuesday because this is that day That we discussed legal tenders, but in particular in studio with me a Queens from The Africa and the big African pageant carry bonisana. Thank you. Thank you. I hope you understand Is number four so maybe we can start with the With you You can introduce yourself all your credentials don't forget me. Oh, okay. Hello Kenya and hello Africa. My name is Lucia Ochan I'm from South Africa. I'm the current reigning mrs. Africa Club 2019 I'm also a CEO of Lucia. Oh holdings and the founder and patron of Lucia. Oh foundations I chair young women desk within our municipality. I sit within a women's council and Founder of young women desk. No, sorry young. We chamber of commissars in South Africa I'm your play your part in basada as well for brand essay. All right, which province are you from again? I'm from boomer longa boomer longa. Yes boomer longa So it's boomer longa boomer longa it means the province of the rising Sun So that's where the Sun rises from then it's set in halting What does it say to me? It rises in boomer longa and then it sets in halting I hope I remember that at the end of this and boomer longa means east So we are from the eastern part of South Africa. Yes So the Sun rises in the east and sets in the west in boomer longa and sets in Halting Halting is where Pretoria and Johannesburg is All right, welcome to Kenya and welcome to it in the morning in particular. Thank you. All right My name is Sylvia Moramu Chavo. I'm representing Kenya in Miss Africa also MS elite I'm a mother of three I'm an entrepreneur. I have a company called tech hub holdings I also have foundation called and these peaks for special needs persons I am a CEO of a river crafts where we Are working on manufacturing learning aids, you know And apart from that I am currently the arpica morotarian So I am in charge of public image in zone 22 a zone 22 Which is in Africa that is in Africa arpica means assistant public image coordinator Assistant public image coordinator. Yes. Wow. Yes. Image is everything, you know So, uh, one thing I'd like the viewers to know first That's your mom's Yes, definitely. Uh, slightly unbelievable, but Get it from me. You are mom's. Yes, I am a mom I'm a mother of two boys a One teenager and one will be teenager next year. Yes, and I'm married at the same time married at the same time You're a mom. Yes, three boys three boys. Yeah, I just became a teenager a day before yesterday a teenager A mom to a teenager two days ago. Yes You can be a mom and still slay like this Yes, definitely It doesn't mean once you have given birth you have to forget to be who you are as a woman as a woman We need to embrace who you are in nature But shouldn't forget that beauty comes within while we nature the outside Including the inside should be natureed and not forgetting to love ourselves because self love is important Because if you cannot love yourself as a woman, you cannot love another human being So once you love yourself, you're able to to glow Once you love yourself, you look like this Definitely I agree As you apart from all these foundations that you have and all these missions that you have in life You have careers that you guys have been building forward. Only which one is yours? I'm a graphic designer and a brand consultant for the since 2006 Since 2006. Yeah. All right. So I've been running my business from 2011 Yeah So you just build it and you start working on it from scratch. I'm very passionate about talent Um, the time I was going for my career. It was a time where art meant nothing So it meant fighting the odds to actually do the career that I want in family and I had done my research and I knew animation and graphics was the next big thing. So doing research And it is for sure. Yeah, and and here we are. It is the next big thing. So I can say I was It has evolved over time so much Yeah, greatly because before art was all about painting and drawing But now you see we have CAD which is computer aided design In all aspects from architecture to graphic design to fashion design When you look at back in the days when we were in school, it was all about drawing everything So, uh, some of our had to do refresher courses, of course Because when you're used to how we were doing it before to now It's way easier now. Like I look at it and I'm like, oh my god I should like this should have happened then because we had Now you can't even learn YouTube Yeah, imagine stuff tutorials and stuff like that. We for us we were learning about websites We had to cram everything like HTTP this to instruct We had to learn call on time you call all that It's been a long time come on But you have been shit for you come Your career My career I am a somatologist I'm a qualified somatologist and I've done advanced medical aesthetics So I own a medical aesthetic clinic in Null Sprite Which has been running for the past five years now. I'm also an entrepreneur I I put together How can I put um, there's a whole lot that I do, you know, I empower You don't know where to start And I empower young women. I give them skills, you know in terms of the industry that I'm in So somatology, it's actually the study of the body and we do beauty So you find there are somatologists that are into massages and they are into You know spa treatments but mine is more advanced because this is where I grapple with doctors and I grapple with dematologist And which means I work with a lot of the condition of the skin So yeah, I mentor a lot of young people and I'm also involved within our youth chamber of commerce and industries in our province Which is where young people are in business in terms of mentorship And we have established a young chamber of commerce Which where I'm the founder so that we make sure that, you know, at young women they have access To information and also access to trade. All right. So you're a champion you champion for Empowerment problem. Yes, development and empowerment, especially women in youth because you find especially in Africa This is where the marginalized communities are, you know, we're women and youth Children elderly, yes, but um, the majority is women So I believe if you empower and develop a woman, you've developed the whole nation So we cannot leave women behind. This is why we are women and supporting women. So it's the simplest way of impacting a family Okay, definitely because remember a mother is the one that stays with the children and is the mother that Guides children more than the father because most of the time the father is out there, you know Uh Working and trying to make sure there's bread on the table So the mother is the one that is there with the child. So if we don't we do not educate Young girls and women we have lost the whole nation This is one of the causes that made you a champion. Oh mrs. Africa Yes, it's the love of humanity and also restoring dignity, especially in Africa If you go in social media and you see Whoever comes to Africa to come empower the pictures that you see It's not the pictures that you like to see what we are saying is that, you know We do have a beautiful Africa that can be exposed to the outside world in a positive manner Because I believe when god created Africa he had he had his own plan in mind You know with the resources that we have and also an African person, you know with the skills that we have in the creativity So if we put that together that what actually drives me as a person to say if we can restore that and also Make sure that the outside world see the true essence of Africa. What is Africa is? Africa is actually The most beautiful country or the most beautiful continent. Sorry the most beautiful continent We are the most beautiful continent that you know Anyone have not seen you know because when they see Africa they see poverty and they see that there's animals But if they can see what Africa is they will know that Africa she is Africa Africa is a woman That is why we must empower these women in Africa and make sure they are in leadership roles Make sure they run businesses Make sure they are entrepreneurs and their skills so that they can pass their skills to their own children And be able to put bread on the table Wonderful before we talk about your cause and the reason you're in the country I'm always passionate about empowering Empowerment and growing economies especially in Africa But the big question is always can we separate This with the politics of the day and still achieve what we want to achieve or We have to involve ourselves in the politics of the day I always say that you know what one cannot divorce themself from politics because we are politics and Politics affect each and every one of us. So if you divorce yourself from politics wishments You do not want your social economy of the country to grow So if you know what's happening around you and as young people when it's time to vote we do vote We have made a mark and we have made proper decision that will move our country forward So we cannot divorce ourselves from politics. We have to be involved. We have to be aware In a positive in a positive way you have to read you have to know your country's policies You have to know your country's constitution, especially in South Africa. I don't want to dwell in politics as I've said But we are a democratic country but with democracy meaning that that we have a voice Everybody has a voice and sometimes they're going to conflict. Yes, you're going to conflict But that voice can be made through your own constitution where you are able to do petition and say this The policy that we have or the constitution does not work for the people at the moment This is this is what we want if we can voice our views in that way I think a country will be able to move forward, but if we'll always voice our views in in riots and also Destroying properties will never grow as Africans. Yeah, so there's always a better solution There's always a way of coming to to an argument. Yes and solving conflicts There's a reason you're in Kenya and you live in tonight by the way. Yes. I am living tonight I've been here since thursday to support um, sylvia the finalist for me for miss africa elite The reason why I came to kenya is because what she's advocating for children with special special needs And it's one of those especially mothers that have children with special needs What they go through and I have you know, I had an opportunity to to spend some time with sylvia and her children And for me as a mother, I you know, I was able to see what she goes through It's it's it's it's a lot to be honest with you and men wouldn't take it because First day for me was a bit hard because having two children with special needs You know, and you're a single mother and you it's it's not that easy But the following day, you know, I got used to the situation because I also have a son who has eight dhd But he's more hyper. He's not the hyper part. So, you know, you get to understand But for the fact that she's single she's a single mother and she's having these children and she's doing what she's doing She's a she's a trailblazer. Let me put this where she's an entrepreneur. She's a philanthropist She's a humanitarian they had that she has for me. I was like, she's you know at kenya. You have a gem We have a gem right here. We should appreciate her more and that's the reason she's here with us Uh, she's in a better position to talk about the cause So please tell us what was going on So on saturday we had, um Work beyond success be significant. So that was a business leadership conversation forum that we had I had put together Uh in support of my foundation, which is andy speaks for special needs children I'm championing for neurodiverse person's inclusion neurodiverse means the invisible disabilities that we have You know when someone mentions disability, what comes to your mind first? critical blind All these are things that you can see. All right. So what happened to that autistic person who it's all neurological Yeah, neurological means inside them someone who's bipolar someone who has a dhd a dd Or someone let's say who has learning difficulties because there's learning disabilities as well Yeah, that is where now dyslexia falls in and people who can actually tell Some who have difficulties in reading so