Monicah Jepkemboi Tenai

Monicah Tenai is trained in Early Childhood Education and Guidance Counseling. She is currently working at Little Rock Inclusive Centre in Kibera, Africa’s largest informal settlement in Nairobi, where she is responsible for the Kenyan sign language department. She has started a self-help group in Kibera, Nairobi as well as in Eldoret, North Rift valley where she encourages women and youth to apply for Kenyan legislative funding such as the women and youth enterprise funds and the National Development Fund for People Living With Disabilities (PWDS). After the Washington Fellowship, Ms. Tenai plans to share her experience back home with women with disabilities and youth to help them to become change agents in their communities. Monicah Jepkemboi Tenai wants to work on sensitizing public and private sector enterprises to implement disability and gender friendly program policies, and plans to grow her self-help group into a community based organization. Monicah was one of 100 Fellows competitively selected to participate in an 8-week internship in the United States following the Mandela Washington Fellowship academic institute. She interned at the National Association of the Deaf in August-September 2014.