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Jacinta Kemunto Makori with one of her bikes. [Stanley Ongwae, Standard]
When Jane Kemunto Makori lost her husband in 2020, she was left with six children, no steady source of income and a future clouded by uncertainty and many unanswered questions.
The death of the family’s sole breadwinner plunged the widow from Igare in Kisii County into a struggle that is all too familiar for many women in rural Kenya.
She had to contend with the burden of balancing grief with the immediate need to put food on the table and keep children in school. But six years later, Kemunto’s journey has become a story of resilience, entrepreneurship and financial reinvention. At the time of her husband’s death, the prospects appeared bleak.
