 WCW and strength of a woman and this week's strength of a woman we get to highlight Mevmuturi who is Miss Universe Kenya and screenwriter and a humanitarian she is wearing a whole lot of hat but you know the good thing is that she is in studio to tell us all about it Karibusena. Thank you very much. So please um I have just probably said briefly who you are you can introduce yourself how you prefer to. All right. My name is Mevmuturi, Miss Universe Kenya 2023 and a screenwriter as she has said a humanitarian and above all things apis ambasada. We were very active during the 2023 I mean 2022 elections that just passed and I like to insist that I'm also a mum. It's a very important part of my initials and my toe and my yeah my name. I think I'll ask your question that was asked by my producer of air. All right. What is the difference between Miss, M-I-S-S, and M-S Miss? Okay. When pageantry started they used to have contestants who were between mostly between 18 and young ladies to say the least. These young ladies were unmarried they didn't have kids and they were just young ladies M-I-S-S that is the miss now. And then it revolved and evolved and over time we have come to have different competitions where they feature every woman it's inclusive of every other woman lady to say. So M-I-S-S is for the young lady the young woman. And then there is M-S M-S now is inclusive of every woman. You could be unmarried you could be however old you are you could have kids but not married. I mean you could be married you could be whatever age you could have kids and unmarried and you could still be young and unmarried. So that is the difference between the titles. So the benefits the accolades everything is the same regardless? I'll say so. The benefits highly depends on the pageant itself. Different pageants give different benefits on different angles. Okay. So how did you learn that Miss Universe? Let's just begin that before we talk about every other thing. Okay. It's a competition. First before this title I was Miss Universe Nairobi County. Miss is for M-R-S because I'm a mum so I'm inclusive there they say I'm married because you have a kid yes. And then after my reign ended I was Miss Universe Nairobi County 2021-2022. And then after my reign ended I felt the need of together with my colleague Shiro who's a bit great. We felt the need to have our own where we have this lady who doesn't have a kid or this lady who is married and doesn't want no divorce to say or separated from the spouse so we felt the need to be pioneers of this title. So I'm like the pioneer the first one to be called Miss Universe Kenya. And then now over time we will now start having the competition where now we crown others and yeah. Interesting. So how long do you intend to reign as Miss Universe now that you are the pioneer? Just this year towards the end we have we have plans of holding ours either towards the end of the year or beginning of the year depending with some a lot of things here. So the title is just sorry forgive me for asking layman. It's okay. Layman question but the title Miss Universe. Is it viable like let's say Miss Tourism, Miss Kenya? Are they the same? Yeah it's very much viable because it's the competition goes up to international levels. So it's very much viable and like I said it depends with the pageant itself how the directors run it because all pageants are run differently. So depending with the directors and how they want to run it and how they have agreed with the international body. So the benefits may be the same more or less because it's a title and a crown but now the niti griti as you call them may be different. So who funds the pageantry? People look for sponsors. Sponsors and now yeah it's sponsors to say the least. It's sponsors because you can't fund it from your own. You can but it's quite expensive to fund it from your own pocket and you really have to have that money in your pocket to fund it. So you look for sponsors to partner with. So you are a humanitarian. Does it have something to do with your title or your career in pageantry or where did the interest in doing humanitarian work come from? Alter the interest has always been there but now sometimes when you have the interest how to pursue it might be a challenge. So my going into pageantry was just to have a stepping stone or rather an advantage of when I'm pursuing this humanitarian opportunities or when I'm going out there to do my humanitarian work I can have that upper hand to have people draw interest and really want to know what is going on with this person or why is she here. I was wondering if you were humanitarian and then I didn't even ask you to help us understand what humanitarians do. Maybe there's someone who's there and they're like okay what's a humanitarian again so please do you mind taking us through what do humanitarians do? Myself as a humanitarian they try and I won't say solva but stand in I don't want to say solva I'm looking for the right word for this explanation they basically are there to help people who are having maybe a difficulty facing their life or a certain some difficulty so humanitarians come in to help you or walk with you rather through that phase I don't know if I've explained it well but that is how I understand it when I'm doing my work in which my work is together with Shiro like I had mentioned we started this together so what we do is she provides education for girls and me I provide I normally work with boys I like working with boys because so like mentorship to the boys and providing them giving them the voice encouraging them through so yeah wow nice as a person now this is me as a person I appreciate given that this is also strength of a woman I appreciate hearing stories of people if you can probably briefly tell us how did you end up at everything you're doing before we talk about your screenwriting okay everyone your experiences growing up and all through shape you as this person that you are eventually so I'm not different my experiences growing up pushed me into that side of work that I'm trying to do and when I say my experiences when we were growing up we had strict parents and we didn't understand why they were strict we had challenges that we didn't understand how to go about them because there was no one to guide us through and like today that you can sit with your parent and they can guide you through things this year me as a parent of the young parents I can sit with my child and guide him but when we were growing up that wasn't there is no one you could have sat with your mum or dad and they would explain to you this and this and this so experiences however the toughness that I experienced growing up really made me want to stand in for that person who is experiencing the same and they don't have someone to go back to to guide them or to lean on so like I said growing up we had lack we lacked a lot of things and we lacked a lot of things and somehow it got into us and messed our mental state and mental health and I think that is the most major reason why I chose to do what I do and why I became the person I became because I tend to be very soft on anyone who is going through a difficult time I just want you to hold that thought we take a very short break and then we'll be back don't touch that time we're coming back with more