 She is a facilitator, a mentor, a community mobilizer, a peer educator, a young women leader, a domestic worker, and a gender-based violence champion. All these are titles attributed to Joyce Muikali, who's staff background molded her to become who she is today. A mother, a mentor, a facilitator, a skilled trainer, a community mobilizer, a domestic worker. Joyce says she began working as a domestic worker at a tender age as a means of survival. I grew up in Mkuru slums, blessi na itwa Nairobi South and South B. So, background ya, kuhiku wa that's good. So, at 15, nikahujan kaparam toto when I was in Form 2. So, I had to drop out of school at some point. So, I started working as a domestic worker at that time. Ni kwa na mail menta mone li ni link to several organizations where I was trained as a peer educator. For that matter, at IoT, I'm a train of trainees. So, from there, nikahu fanyapia gaidas and cancelling. Ya, I did several short courses. Ya, mentorship, facilitation and all that. Most domestic workers encounter numerous hurdles in the endeavors. Joyce was no exception. It motivates me to mentor other girls not to go the path I went through. Or maybe the challenges I went through. I have been through sexual abuse several times when I was working as a domestic worker. Three houses I had to go... Niliponea, that is, Niliponea sexual violence. For the first house, the man of the house was going to work and coming back in the house. So, he was going to work in a house. So, I felt uncomfortable with him. You know, he was not comfortable with me working in that house. As in, moneongia nini and he's a male. Amiang, though I was pregnant, I didn't know I was pregnant at that time. So, I was working. Nili Adolei na kusumbu, na kusumbu, unendak tafta kazi. Na aima so mua pana, unendak tafta kazi. But I didn't know I was pregnant by that time. So, for the first house, I escaped. As in, nili achajob that time too. Nika pigia madam, nika mombia. Mini me toka, mzewa kukuna bili anata kakuni rape. Ya, so nika toka nika ishia. So, the second one, the man was a drunkard. So, alikwa na kunyosana. Nili kwa na lalakwa sitting room. So, the moment alikuja kafunu wa blanketi. Funona. Funua blanketi, nika fila pana. Nika muka raka, nika piganduru madama katera. Muka then aka ni rescue. The third house ilikwa ya a boy, who was the, the, the... mtotwayo hao. So, aka kuja, nikiwa kwa hao, alienda aka rudi kugudi. Nisha malizakazi niku kwa rumiangu. Anakuja ilikwa kitu lunch time. Anakuja kujifanya, anataka... anataka chakula. So, alikwa na nita ni endeni muike chakula. But in real sense aku anataka chakula. So, the moment nili fungu a rumiangu, aka ingia forcefully. So, nika push na nika toka nika end. Change starts with us. Therefore, the victims have to speak out. See his joist. I always say it has to start from you, from you yourself. The person who is undergoing abuse. Asipoongia you wouldn't do anything about it. Na jua. So, they have to speak out. Ya. Kus asipo ni ambi, asipoongia, ii maybe tumenda na ii kesi kotini. Mi ni labda neza chukua. Ni seme weo, weo brother ma weo father asikwe. But when the girl has haongi, we can't do anything about it. We do as a psychosocial support, which encourages them to speak out. So na find at some point they will speak out. Just avoid a company that will pull you behind. For you not to achieve your goals. Then be determined. Be a go-getter. For whatever you want, reach out for it. We work with several organizations that support the girls in our community. Wenehu wa wanawa support. Kuna trainings like entrepreneurship. For those, weneu mekwambia wanape wa start-up kids. Wanape ta entrepreneurship. Wanape le kwa courses. Wanape wanape wanape wanape. Wanape wanape wanape wanape. Wanape wanape wanape wanape. Wanape wanape wanape wanape. Wanape wanape wanape wanape. Wanape wanape wanape. Wanape wo wanape wanape. If I wasn't empowered, I wouldn't be able to empower the other person. So through me being empowered, I am able to empower a girl that is in the community. in the slums and help her. I can only help them achieve their goals. We have empowerment programmes. Like I told you I'm a skills trainer. So for 20 to 24 years, I teach them about skills, like detergent making, yogurt making and mat making. Joyce says she's currently working on a domestic workers project. It's an organisation that is supporting us through domestic workers. So they've been training domestic workers on professional domestic work and they are giving certificates so they work professionally. We've been trained for the past, this is the third year. So they are able to link domestic workers with jobs. We are working from home like any other person because we work on an app. If an employer needs an employee to work through the app, then we are able to work with them. The organisation I'm telling you about is working closely with the government. So they are training domestic workers in those Arabic countries. But all in all, we say it's all about you. We are able to work with them. See what we are able to do through such cases. And at how anyway, I think to me on the social media most of the domestic workers want to say, if you go there, you go to work. If you go to a store, you will be able to work with them. We are able to work with them. Every good initiative has its own fair share of challenges but she always tries to find a solution. We are able to work with them. But at the end of the day, when they are messed up, they still get pregnant at a younger age. So we are able to... as in, come on Mr. Nahayuki, we are ready to change. It will be hard for you to change them. So we don't give up, we keep on pushing. Yes. Come on them, I'm a mess. Ndiyo asha pata pregnant. So what next? Una mambiasi, una endele kumambiasi give up, she can go back to school. I have a 14-year-old girl, mwenyali jifungu and she was in class then. She went back to school. Anatoka nga lunchtime miyana nda nanyu siya mtoto anarudi shule. Challenging inu una pata, hatuna watu akutu support sana. For example, kama ita emiya COVID, lakili we had some few friends, weniwal kwa nanunua pads, wana niletea na patia was sana. So una patanga, sile hauna resources. Nihad kuran these activities. Joyce attributes the success of her projects to the partners she works with. Having been working with a different organization, there is the Hope Worldwide CDTD, Center for Domestic Workers. Wame kwa waki tu support sana. Through them, we are able to reach different girls, different women when you want to be able to speak out and work for themselves. We are able to reach different cultures. For example, kama okumare duna ngoja ule tewe, you should work for yourself. Ndujue sikwa ubaya, but sometimes through my life experience, buda nga wali tuwacha 98 when I was in class. In class 4, I think. So life in me kwa hard. Jumamangu, ali kujaka. Tuna jwa babangu wala kwa nafanya job, so he was supporting. Walo zewakitambu wa takangi mabibi wa fanya kazi. So life ika kujaka kwa hard sana. So through that, me kwa nama kwa kujifanya kazi na kujia kia ptesa. Life I was kwa ngumu at some point, kus atakama kwa na mtu wana kusapot, sometimes we two happen. Una jipato kwa alone. So what do you do when you are alone? Uta nza kwa mbia mtu atia ni tumia, so mbi lisina pesecha kula na kusawa siye tueni mule mabu wa manini. So that's why we empower girls. Mawese kwa work for themselves and pia waku wa empowered. Mtu aneza funguata biya syaraya kia fanya. Kamasi is the organizations I tell you. Labda atatumge kwa na izi activities tu na fanya because they are the main supporters. But the government awa chezi patia wu bile inafa. Yo is a proposal ziko, but we don't know ni na ni wana patanga. Natu juangi na ni na pata is a proposal. Una pata ni had kwe tuku juwa izi vi tu patikana lini na zi na tuku liwa wa api. But they need to come to machinani. Mi wu se maibu. Kwa kujia wawone zile vi tuwatu wana fanya wuku anda. Ile kido kuwata support will be grateful. Eza pating short, this is a word of advice to the society. We keep on pushing them, keep on mentoring them. Kwa ambi ukweli wile dunia ego. Then pia we need support from all the stakeholders. For example the parents, the teachers, mentors like us, everyone in the society, the government. Una pata. Ewa acha kutishi ya wa toto maisha. Una eza pata. Kuli kwa gana cases sometimes una pata. Una toto amengia kwa shida. And instead ya kumrekebisha. Una zidi kumkana miza. The moment tu om toto anatoka apu. Aki toka apu inja na join your life. Lazimu upambani. So una pata. Instead of acha crime, una pata badua na zidiku. Kukua vitrongu. So it's a high time every stakeholder to help in every way. May it be cancelling, may it be talking to these children. What I can say about poverty. The only person that can bring you out of poverty is you. You need to work hard. Be educated for you to get out of that situation. No one. Akunom tu aneza kudia kwa mbisa sa, nime kutua pa nime kweka apa, upate u kwe tajiri at once. You need to work hard and be determined.