Meet The Amazing Kenyan Nominee For CNN Hero of the Year Award.

Kakenya Ntaiya. Does the name ring a bell? If it doesn’t, agonize not. Kakenya Ntaiya is one of the ten contenders vying for the prestigious 2013 CNN Hero of the Year Award.

The woman has crawled through grit and grime to get to a position to empower the girl child through education.Betrothed at age five and forced to pass through the excruciating ordeal that is FGM she became the  first lady in her rural community to earn a university degree in the land of the bald eagle, United States. Upon her return, she opened the first primary school for girls in the area. An unyielding believer ‘that education is the best way to empower and motivate young girls to become agents of change in their community and country’ her school Kakenya Center for Excellence has become the only hope for over 150 girls

Kakenya and her girls

Apart from being nominated for the CNN Hero Of The Year award she boasts of accolades such as  ital Voices Global Leadership award in 2008,National Geographic Emerging Explorer in 2010 and was named one of Newsweek’s “150 Women Who Shake the World” in 2011 .
Let us help this remarkable woman get this award as it comes with a $300,000 (over Ksh 25 Million) bounty that will enable her to further this noble cause. Follow this link and VOTE!

Additional reporting by Nation.co.ke