 Tote wa h 그렇게 baya wikiwa ni waaよし maşa. Kawe extraordinusia wikiwa nEta rawe. Na kwa mkwani wikiwa, polya mkwani mwikiwa kwa, Mizum cosa muikkale mnishu maisha raha mowe, hwia mnishu mnisha kwa pasi na mwikiwa wa mwikiwa mnishu na mwikiwa. Toka hika kuunilulu. Raha mnisha maisha kwana mwikiwa maisha maisha nlilulu maisha. My name is Mrs. Rahab Mwiyu. My parents got me my card when I was born because I have four brothers, I love them. I am in this organization as the National Chairperson. I was given by the women of my family and I say this with a lot of humility that they trusted me, that they believed we can work the journey together. Being the first daughter in a family of seven, put her in a tight spot is her parents wanted her to be an exemplary figure to her siblings. I grew up with very strict unclean parents. Those were the days when the unclean church had only one bishop. Who is the late bishop of Adiyapariuki? He is the father of the Atomagina. And we had only one bishop and the church was strict and serious and my parents, my mother was the leader of mothers' union those days. My father used to sit in the Senate which had very few people and my father was a businessman, a man in church, a man in community leadership. So I was a little advantage because we had life in the village and my father bought a farm when I was eight years old, 1964. So I also lived in the farm from an early age. So I was exposed to privacy because we were able to live as a family and when we were in the village, we also were in the village. And I went up to class three at home then I was taken to a boarding school. Second grade, that was when we came. So really I have kind of lived a private life and a community life because when we were home, my parents were very important to the church. Rehub had a fast for the airline industry something she was able to achieve after completion of high school and as luck was on her side, the man she got married to was also in the same field. I wanted to be in the airline and my father was very strict. So I convinced him. My mother wanted me to be a teacher. I told my father, I don't want to teach. He wanted me to go to the university. The university used to be three years. I told him I want to go to the airline or do... I just wanted to be happy and I was taken in the airline just for a week. I left my parents 42 years ago and married and moved from now to the south. I married an engineer who was from South Kaniwa the old people who were in aviation joined South Kaniwa from 1967 and I married him in 1977. A professional gentleman who was my life partner for 40 years I lost him just about 40 years of marriage. We got three sons together. Her career life started on a good note when she landed a job with the Kenyan government in the ministry of agriculture. I got employed in the minister of agriculture in 1975. The minister there was a very close friend of my father. They were in politics together. I was there, I hired as a father. And so from there the government secretary of college opened it was a two year course where we were learning of his management and secretary of services and entrepreneurship. So I went to the government secretary college for two years and now I didn't go to the airline. And so that was now, my teenager now started there. I was staying with my brother in Langata. He was working with the South Kaniwa industry and he was also so strict. So I had this thing. My father would come to Nairobi like every week bring us food. His farm was in Sedana, he was very near. And had very strict rules. However, as a teenager you will break them. So of course I broke them like any other teenager. But then of course my mother would just sit me down and say if you go that way I'll never happen in a village. If you become a good girl your sisters will follow your example. In the early 80s to 2012 she ventured into export business and later run flouriculture. I went to Nairobi in 1978 and I actualized my dream of a bat wanting to be out in the world. And then I started an export business which of course I worked for the government from college in 1977. I worked for Minister of Corporatives for six years. That public hotel I designed very early in there was 27 or 8 when I designed. I went to do my first exhibition in Bali in Germany for exports and it was so pretty. So from 1993 until 2012 along the way I was in exports and I did a lot of exhibitions in Asia, in Japan, in US, in Europe and early 90s my children were not becoming teenagers I stopped doing export after 10 years from 80s I got into flouriculture. Due to her love and respect for marriage and family she stands out as a traditional African woman who pushes for being a pesceta for the rest. There are certain things about the African woman I believe in. I tell them to my daughter in law. Mama Roxas, those two girls they are my daughter in law. I believe one in the traditional marriage I believe that women when they marry they have a responsibility about their families. Why do I say this? My mother was my role model. I saw how she treated my father and I admired marriage for my parents. So when I got married even things which I would see of course life in the West would travel in all those places, land and everywhere I still had this thing in me of wanting to treat my husband as a traditional woman a traditional woman inside that I have been in mind making me a cup of tea many times to prepare me a cup of tea but I still made this dinner did some washing which I had to do myself not the workers. Treating the way a man is treated when he is married a woman. I depart a lot there with a lot of my colleagues because I think everybody has what they believe in. So I believe that a family should stay together. There will be challenges. I believe that a man ought to take care of his family. Everybody has a role. It is biblical. A man must fade for the family. Yes, we have these issues where I don't want us to go there men are not doing this, women are not doing this. So in this institution of marriage weaknesses and strengths are there. So everybody has a different strength. I married a profession of myself. I was a secretary but I went into business. I was balanced. So the times I was involved with my admissions my husband was in the office and he would be home. He would be the one in Kenya. Then there were times he would join me. So you agree as a couple. Our men, I have a lot of respect for them myself but let it not be competition in the house. We can do competition here in the office. I am in Mandelio. I can do competition with my national officials. At the minute I got to my gate I was Mrs. Muyu. My husband was in the house. I was his wife. I have a role as a mother of my children. I have a role as a grandmother. So we must be able to divide these roles. Because life is just simply that. I am a woman here. Reiha believes in community empowerment and nothing would stop her from pulling her people from the other ditch of poverty. She sacrificed her personal resources her valuable time and money exerting all her energies in volunteering at Mandelio Wanawaki Organization for a notable long period. We are Kenyan women and we are in the rural areas and we know over the years the need for water. Some people may have been born where it rains when gini wakopa ali kafusana but because as a Mandelio chair I have gone around the 47 counties nimeo na umuhimu wa harvesting water. What do we see normally? Kutu mekauka kesha watua na bebo na majitukani kesha watua na bebo na majimuengi So you ask yourself hi maji tuna wa zanji kuhi harvest ina sa India Kila Mama Kila Poma therefore the need of a five year dream abaya to mejari pukut after wa tutu patina with us. Finally we were able to get to do more tanks and the Bosoni Microfinance because the need of water in every household in this country in the 47 counties is why we are here. This is a national lunch. We will not do another one like this, but we shall go to every county with the mdumu and with the microfinance kila mama kila bumana itanji maji. And therefore, to make it easier for any household in this century we are in, it is to harvest that rain water, which is clean water, which is free water, na mama alipe akilipa mukopo ya pesa kidogo. Inimuranditu nalipa na that six months, which our members have agreed it is affordable. Ii yotani trekking all these mountains must yana kitofta maji. Kijana memona aki pita, muzea memona aki pita, aki rudia me shikwa me nyanyazo. We can limit, we can minimize these challenges if we do things like harvesting water. And for us in Maendeleo, our MOU was clear is harvesting water and it is planting trees. So we are also on climate change, we signed an MOU with Green in Kenya. So that end of the day we are working on the environment, now we are the grass roots. Maendeleo devolved. That hendi kuota there nipali agu kwa kufanya kasi na kujahapa. So water is in every household, we are seven years in three years. We would want to have a water tank in every home. So we are calling on Kenyans, we are calling on our leaders. If you can manage to be a Maendeleo member, buy a water tank for somebody in Wajia woman, buy a water tank for a woman in Tukana, you can pay it cash, you can pay in instruments by being a member of Maendeleo. So this is an opportunity for us Kenyans. We started in New Kenya yesterday. I was in Burma, South Kenya. I was in street house. The spirit is good. The country is now fresh. Let us make life easier for our women at the grass roots. He who dances at home is surely rewarded. Her passion and love for women empowerment and Hazila's commitment to the organization made her the most outstanding and the best choice for the topmost position. When it was time to cast the votes, Rahab was voted the chair leader to steer the organization into her heavenly path while she dances to African tunes. Of unity for the women of this country, I want to step down to be chair leader. To Nakwamba usiende kabise, we respect what you have done together with the leadership lines here. A strategic plan 2019-2024 is one of her achievements that Rahab believes is a powerful roadmap that will surely drive the organization among other projects straight to their goal. Maendeleo wa nga waka imenji tokeza. Wakati tulio na pomba ilingi eningisa na kule central. Tulio na wama waka yambu wa lisi mamisha. Na sisi tumeya mua kama wa mama wa injihi. Kupiti ya Maendeleo wa nga waka. Maafaya watoto wei tu itasi mama. Yes. Tutasungumzi ya watoto. Yes. Maneno ya manda wa itasi mama. Yes. Maneno ya families kuwana wa kiawa wachanga Maendeleo is going to bring town hot talks to our young children so that we cancel them ileni kitugani na fanya muwane. Arusi a indiya kuwara isi na simbaya is the best institution God gave us but we can always talk. So we are going to be talking to our children. Maneno ya drugs. Tutasungumzi ya watoto wei tu wa achendawa wa inji to fanya kasi ya bachini. So this meeting we are talking family planning tuta panga wusazi. Siyo vizuri kuwana wa watoto wei isi kulinda. Ukia nga liya pakadiya niya nga liya ni muzuri na mnagani. Kamatunge kuwana industry wale watoto wei tu wa nakia kibera wange kunja wa andikwa wakae nyumbani. Yes. Na wakae maisha mizuri ku li kwa ila ika kibera. Tuna sungumzi ya family planning tuna sungumzi ya family values Ile values tu lile wa nasu sisi. Tumese mawale wa mama tukostini na jutu kaka kama ishiri niya pa. Tumese ma lasima turundi nyumbani tutu sungumzi ya watoto. We need values in the family. We need to talk na wa zewetu. Mandeleo stands for the girl, the woman, and the family. Ma nakia family muze yuko. Mama yuko. The boy child is in there. Atu ta achaki ya na wetu awa yasungumzi wei. Mandeleo wana wakae inji to keza. Wakati tu lio na pomba ilingi anyingi sana kule central. Tu lio na wama wa kiambu wali sima misha. Na sisi tu meyamua kama wama wa inji hi. Kupiti ya maendeleo ya wanawake. Maafaya watoto wei tu itasi mama. Tuta sungumzi ya watoto. Mane no ya mandawa itasi mama. Mane no ya families ku wana wa kiwa wachanga. Maendeleo is going to bring town hot talks to our young children. So that we cancel them niki tu gani na fanya muwane. Aruzi a inji kuwara isi na simbaya is the best institution God gave us. But we can always talk. So we are going to be talking to our children. Mane no ya drugs. Tuta sungumzi ya watoto. Wei tu wachandawa. Wange tu fanya kasi ya bachini. So this meeting we are talking family planning. Tutapanga wuzazi. Siyo vizuri kuwa na watoto wei siku linda. Uke angali apakadi ya ni angali industry. Wale watoto wei tu wana kaki bera wange kunja waandiku wakae nyumbani. Nga wakae maisha mizuriku liko ile iko kibera. Tuna sungumzi ya family planning. Tuna sungumzi ya family values. Natuna sema ile values tu lile wana sisi. Tu me sema wale wa mama tu kostini na jutu kakama isirini ya pa. Tu me sema lazima turundi nyumbani tu sungumzi ya watoto. Wa mamas custodians of the family we are going to help build the nation. Because bibi liya inatwambia a clever woman anandia ga nyumbayake na miku noyake sisi maende liya we are going to do that. Matters water. Tuna sungumzi ya maji. Tuna omba maji. Mimi wa kati ya 2017 li sungu kakanya. And I've been to 47 counties. And I know. When vision 2030 we talk about safe water we have only 11 years to go. So I'm asking myself why can't we harvest water? Tuna omba sere kali. Nationa na county. Wa saindiya wa mama. Wa tupemi kupu tuna o na pesa iko. Situ na yonanga. Sisi ya tuition yinki. Tu we na water tanks. Na tutole we duty ya ma tanki ya maji. Being a chairperson at the Maende Lawyer Wanawaki Organization comes with lots of responsibilities and a fair share of challenges but her determination in achieving the set goals is her strength to fight on. She wishes to leave behind a good legacy for others to borrow a live from. Even as we go to Mata's family planning which I know I'll be fought by some of my women leaders, I also think agaw kana upstate. Standing on top of the African mountain she sings a hero song to some of those who supported and watched her back as she breathed a rafter rain to empowering the African woman. I want to echo what Maende Lawyer stand this afternoon in the lounge of these water tanks. We must eradicate poverty. We must change our lifestyle of food styles eating habits because we are seeing a lot of damaging diseases like cancer that is crippling our society and I want to say again that woman is a foundation of all forms of development. A woman is a pillar a very strong person and she has a role to play and therefore I believe on women and I believe on what Maende Lawyer is doing in introducing the water because if we get clean water collecting the clean water which is wasted around the country it's killing people in Putanangi in Turkana all over the country and yet we are in our homes we don't have the water so this is a noble cause that Maende Lawyer and I'm seeing it as a big boom that it's going to change the lives of Kenyans. We want a woman to be able to pay 600 shillings and it is possible through the government kupata hile bank tuta ambi wakila mama hada miniwe na kawde government yake abata tangi yamaji unless you have questions I'm heading to home abed we really want to say this has been a beautiful meeting wama ma wa tarudi wa sume wama ma ni wa nalia wa toto so we are saying we want to help the families and to help the families is a woman marrying at an age where she can manage her own life so ii muku tano wata sume shu mamba mingisana naji kwa na fasihi kutangu director ncpd na timu yake yote na kusimam sume shu wama mama wama wana suma 11 counties today and so Maende Lawyer is open for partnerships at adonans wagita kakudunulia ma tangi yamaji du kukaribu