Everything Was A Struggle

For a degree, you have to do a lot of research, so I did not think it was going to be possible. With their encouragement and support, I learned that nothing is impossible, and I studied for three years. I would borrow money and buy materials, but then the clothes I made wouldn’t sell. I still had to pay the person who loaned me the money. Everything was a struggle. I learned that everything begins in the mind. If you are willing to change your mind, then there are no limits. I began studying the Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes to learn my purpose in life, and began focusing on the good and focusing on the customer. I learned to see things in a different way. If someone asked me to make something but then didn’t take it, I knew it was not meant for them. I wanted to do sewing for my friends in America and all over the world, and that is what has happened. When I wrote it, I did not think it was possible, but now when the humanitarian groups are coming to Kenya, they tell their people in advance that they are going to meet me, and people are excited to make orders for clothing.

Always Forever Now

I wrote that I want to move around to different schools teaching Days for Girls, and I am now going to really big schools, finding that they have very high expectations. I have been to Mombasa, to remote schools, and to the biggest schools, and the girls are very receptive. Do you want to become a doctor? Write it in a journal. As you are writing, it changes your perspective. You start loving the sciences teachers, you get connections, and things start unfolding. My brothers and sisters look at me as someone who didn’t go to school. When I travel internationally, they wonder how it is possible. We have the certificates. We have everything it takes to fly out of the country, and we haven’t done it. They get passionate about life. They can see their future. It is so easy, even for the person who has never been to school.

Don't Stop Believing

It does not have any complications. I have seen it with everybody. My pastor bought land that she wanted to build a really nice house on, and I told her to just write it down. The how and the when are not a problem. Just plant the seed. When we went to the church the next Sunday, the church headquarters published that every church should give the pastor 200,000 ksh for their project. The pieces will come. I met a lady who saw me pregnant at my old age, and asked me how it was possible. She was unable to become pregnant. She had tried many things and had thought it was impossible. She said, I have nothing to lose, so I will write it. Right now, she has a baby who is about three months old.

Let The Good Times Roll

So everything she writes down happens. She knows the secret is to write it down. Do you want to be healthy? Do you want to achieve something? Her husband wanted a job as a banker because he was teaching in the university, which was not his passion. His passion was to work in the bank. I asked if he would write it, and he said he would try anything. Soon he had three banking positions in different locations, but not Nairobi. He came back and said he was getting results but not in Nairobi. I told him to write down in Nairobi and see himself working in Nairobi. He said it was impossible, and I told him nothing is impossible. He went and wrote it and visualized himself working, and it happened. You can write yours, and your life can change. It is empowering. They are looking at me as the example. It has changed me from the person I was into the person that I am now. As my sewing business began to grow, I was offered an opportunity to become involved with Days for Girls, train as an ambassador, and begin a Days for Girls enterprise. Girls are given a kit that contains washable, reusable pads and two pairs of panties. It sounds so simple, but by giving a girl two panties, now she can wash one and, while it dries, she has the other. I wish I had grown up in this time! I could have become a doctor. If someone had visited our school and had given me the Days for Girls kit, life would have been much better. This was very important to me because it is about the journey I have walked myself. Through Days for Girls, I know a girl somewhere is going to stay in school and become a doctor. She is going to change the community and the nation. In Kenya, most of the areas where I’ve been, they do not talk about menstruation in the family. It is taboo to talk about blood issues with your parents or with the immediate family. Many end up becoming pregnant at a very early age because they are exchanging their body to receive the money for their feminine hygiene. In many families that are struggling to even get a breakfast, the daughters feel guilty about asking for money for their hygiene. We are keeping girls in school. This is my passion, because I know what it means not to have it. Whenever I give a kit to a girl, I imagine she is me! I am helping her to live her dreams now! If this girl understands the meaning of this kit, it is going to change the entire nation. I see the great changes that are happening in very remote areas because a girl persevered, went to school, went to college or university, and started a rescue center or a school. You will always find the person who is the administrator is a girl.