Susan Kinyua (born c. 1970) is a

Kenya Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country located in East Africa. With an estimated population of more than 52.4 million as of mid-2024, Kenya is the 27th-most-populous country in the world and the 7th most populous in Africa. ...

n economist known for her work in Africa. She won the 2024 Harambee Award for the Promotion and Equality of African Women

Life

Kinyua was born in

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in about 1970 where she one of five children. There were four sisters and her brother and unusually her parents did not invest all their efforts to promote her brothers education, as she and her sisters also had the same offer. She went to work for Barclay's Bank after studying economics, but she left a well paid job to work with women at the Kianda Foundation. In 2024 Kinyua was in Madrid where she was awarded that years Harambee Award for the Promotion and Equality of African Women. The ceremony was chaired by The award was in recognition of her work directing projects at the Kianda Foundation. She was another Kenyan winner of the award as Professor

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had won it in the previous year. Kinyou's prize of 10,000 euros was given to the Foundation's Fanikisha project which she leads and that project is training 4,500 potential entrepreneurs in Kenya. She began work with Fanikisha (breakthrough in English) in 2003. In 2025 she was leading a project which aimed to inspire 800 women in Kenya with not only business skills but the necessary work to allow them to cope with any issues that may arise. Kinyua has taken a course in psychotherapy as she realises the importance iof supporting her charges. The three year project is named Mwangaza which is Swahili for light. Each of the women on the project are mentored and they, their family and their finances are supported. This was an important part of Mwangaza the project as they believe that education cannot be delivered if the students are concerned about other issues.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kinyua, Susan 1970 births Living people People from Meru County Kenyan economists Barclays people