Building the Economy

Miriam is a single mother and leaves at Mukuru kwa Njenga slums, she goes door to door in estates to buy old newspapers and sell them to a grocery shop  keepers, she discovered that the shop keepers makes toilet paper with the old newspapers.She asked for a job in the grocery shop and was given her aim was to turn the old papers to toilet papers she was taken to the old industry where she learned the technics. She later joined the women group and through it she applied for a loan at the Kenya Women's Trust Fund she was able to start her own industry- making toilet papers. Now she has grown into a big business woman and has employed people. She has really contributed to the economy of the company

Location: Mukuru, Nairobi, Kenya