Waow! That ' s quite a list of wonderful achievements. What has been your motivation?
I ' m always motivated by the desire to help other girls and / women to get access to education and opportunities. Knowing that 100 million girls are out of school wakes me up every morning, I want to change the world with my millions one girl in school at a time.
" KNOWING THAT 100 MILLION GIRLS ARE OUT OF SCHOOL WAKES ME UP EVERY MORNING "
How are you transforming lives through Mahinani hub?
Our programmes at the hub help the youths in rural communities develop ideas into tangible businesses. We provide office space to the participants through which they can access all office resources to enable them execute their ventures.
Mashinani Hub exposes the rural youths to the entrepreneurship toolkit where they learn all aspects of business development from ideation to market validation to prototyping, pitching and even financials through our online curriculum and peer to peer teaching.
At the end of the programme, Mashinani Hub helps match the rural youths with potential investors, financiers, foundations and even stakeholders through which they can access capital and solve challenges in their communities.
Great work there, Simotwo. What is your take on women empowerment
Women empowerment to me is girls ' education and economic empowerment. Just to quote the former US president Barack Obama ' When women succeed, nations are more safe, secure and prosperous.' Over the years women have been denied their
rights to access and benefit from resources and even their own time. But now with education, we have increased our understanding and knowledge of our rights as women and we can make better choices now. Women empowerment increases one ' s self-confidence and that ' s what I want for the young girls in Africa.
Finally, Where do you see yourself in the next 10 years
10 years from now I hope to grow the fastest solar powered hub in at least 4 African countries with the help of our amazing team at Mashinani Hub. I see myself having my doctorate in Computational Mathematics. I see myself as a better farmer( I recently started my own farm in Bomet, Kenya) and I see myself being surrounded by the most incredible, innovative and amazing tribe of women as the future is female!