Nairobi Floods: Businesswoman Launches Initiative To Collect Food For Victims
- Businesswoman Jane Wamuyu has disclosed that watching images of people displaced by floods has taken her back in time
- For this reason, Wamuyu, who rose from hawking tea to owning Best Mitumba Bales, felt compelled to offer help the best way she can
- She launched an initiative to collect foodstuff from well-wishers, as well as use proceeds from her business to feed and clothe those affected by the floods
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Nairobi businesswoman Jane Wamuyu of Best Mitumba Bales has joined the caravan helping Kenyans affected by the ongoing floods.
She told TUKO.co.ke that, having risen from the doldrums to the respectable individual she is, she understood the struggle people living in informal settlements go through during such seasons.
Wamuyu to donate bales of flour
Seeing photos and videos of victims perched on rooftops hit home that she could have been one of them if God's grace didn't get her out of the struggle.
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She asked those willing to donate towards the course to deliver the foodstuff to her shop at Buruburu Shopping Center.
Wamuyu also intends to channel proceeds from her business towards offering help to the flood victims.
"During this period, I will donate a bale of flour for every bale of clothes I sell," she expressed.
Wamuyu started as tea hawker
Wamuyu's story is inspirational. Her venture into entrepreneurship started with hawking tea and mandazis at Githurai market.
Her breakthrough came when she joined the world of importing secondhand clothes from abroad.
She became so good that in 2021, she won the Founder Of the Year Africa Award (FOYA) in a contest with nominees from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, Zambia, Nigeria and South Africa.
Lyn Gicharu offers free accommodation
Wamuyu's offer comes a day after another kind entrepreneur, Lyn Gicharu, opened her Airbnbs to accommodate those displaced by floods for free.
Lyn, who runs an Airbnb business christened Dublin Suites, told TUKO.co.ke that business is not always about making money but serving humanity.
Her generous offer includes a promise that the guests may remain until the floodwaters recede and the situation in Nairobi stabilises.
Most of those she helped had taken to social media to express their alarm over their situations, after which she directed them to her apartments.
What you need to know about floods:
- As of Wednesday, April 24, statistics by the Kenya Red Cross Society indicated that the floods had cost over 39 lives.
- Four bodies believed to be of flood victims have been retrieved from Mathare River following a heavy downpour witnessed in Nairobi county.
- Two trees fell along Moi Avenue near Nairobi Sports House and Imenti House in the Central Business District (CBD) in Nairobi.
Proofreading by Otukho Jackson, a multimedia journalist and copy editor at TUKO.co.ke
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Left: Jane Wamuyu in his shop at Gikomba. Right: A flooded area in Nairobi.
Nairobi Floods: Businesswoman Launches Initiative to Collect Food for
Nairobi, Kenya. 14th May, 2021. The 11-year-old Sheila Anyango
